Guru
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Guru is a Sanskrit term that is used in a few ways. It most simply means teacher in Indic religions such as Tibetan Buddhism. It may also refer to a guru principle, wherein all phenomena is an expression of wisdom and holds the potential for insight. It may also refer to the inseparability of enlightened mind inherent to both the teacher and student, in which the student is practicing realization of that inseparability using guru yoga practices.
Guru Rinpoche is another way of referring to Padmasambhava, the famous teacher who helped establish Buddhism in Tibet.
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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Mipham, Sakyong (1999) 1999 Seminary Transcripts Book 2
- page 99
Mipham, Sakyong (2000) 2000 Seminary Transcripts Book 1
- page 96
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Trungpa, Chögyam (1974) 1974 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
- page 149
Trungpa, Chögyam (1975) 1975 Hinayana Mahayana Seminary Transcripts
- pages 101, 125, 135
Trungpa, Chögyam (1976) The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation
- page 128
- pages 140-45
- universality of,
Trungpa, Chögyam (1995) The Path is the Goal
- pages 38-39
Trungpa, Chögyam (2002) Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
- pages 17-9, 31-50;
- pages 23, 31, 39, 63-5, 91-7
- preconceptions of,
- pages 44-5
- personality cult of,
- pages 45-6, 50, 240
- universality of, . See also initiation and spiritual friend
- pages 54-9
- initiation by,
- page 63
- hunting of,
- page 241
- reliance on,
