guru-disciple
Spiritual master relationship
Guru-disciple describes the traditional relationship between a spiritual teacher and student, especially in Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
The guru imparts wisdom, guidance, and sometimes initiation; the disciple commits to learning and often serves the teacher.
The term appears as a modifier: the guru-disciple bond, guru-disciple dynamics.
Western usage sometimes carries skeptical overtones about power imbalances or cult-like devotion.
Descent from progenitors
- transmissionSending of information
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- ashramHindu spiritual retreat
- teachingsTransmitted knowledge or principles
devotion · surrender · mantra · diksha · parampara · enlightenment · blessing · awakening
Japanese word for teacher
- dojoMartial arts school
- kataMartial arts movement pattern
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
belt · senpai · sifu · respect · mastery · practice · tradition · form
Cease resistance, yield
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- faithTrust without proof
- serviceAid or maintenance
obedience · veneration · prostration · darshan · feet · humility · prayer · blessing
Indian melodic framework
- renditionPerformed version of work
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
- notationSystem of written symbols
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
recital · composition · improvisation · technique · repertoire · oral tradition · performance · training
Guidance from experienced person
- protegeOne receiving expert guidance
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
intellectual · tutelage · pedagogy · apprentice · doctrine · school · influence · legacy
lineage
Descent from progenitors
- transmissionSending of information
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- ashramHindu spiritual retreat
teachings · devotion · surrender · mantra · diksha · parampara · enlightenment · blessing · awakening · master
sensei
Japanese word for teacher
- dojoMartial arts school
- kataMartial arts movement pattern
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
technique · belt · senpai · sifu · respect · mastery · practice · tradition · form · combat
surrender
Cease resistance, yield
service · obedience · veneration · prostration · darshan · feet · humility · prayer · blessing · sacred
raga
Indian melodic framework
- renditionPerformed version of work
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
- notationSystem of written symbols
practice · recital · composition · improvisation · technique · repertoire · oral tradition · performance · training · style
mentorship
Guidance from experienced person
- protegeOne receiving expert guidance
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
scholarship · intellectual · tutelage · pedagogy · apprentice · doctrine · school · influence · legacy · methodology
- mentorshipmentor, apprentice, pupil, student, teacher-student
- Tibetan BuddhismBuddha, Tibet, Dalai Lama, lama, lamas
- Hindu traditionsmandir, aarti, pandit, parampara, tilak
guru-disciplepeer-to-peer
Serverless network architecture
partnership · collegial · equals · egalitarian · colleagues
guru-disciplesecular education
Instruction without religious doctrine
online tutorial · YouTube learning · self-taught · unstructured
guru-disciplemass education
Teaching available to all
classroom instruction · lecture hall · MOOC · standardized curriculum · distance learning
guru, disciple, gurus, disciples, discipleship, disciplinary, discipline, disciplines, disciplined