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Teachers from whom a pupil receives something that cannot be got from a book, in traditions where transmission runs person to person. The Sikh line dominates the heading: ten Gurus from Nanak to Gobind Singh, an office that passed by appointment rather than by descent, with Nanak naming Angad over his own sons. Sikhs hold the line of human Gurus closed in 1708, when Guru Gobind Singh vested it in the scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, and in the Khalsa. Other Indic traditions use the word for a living teacher at the head of a lineage, and a figure filed here from one of those is a guru in that sense and not in the Sikh one. Each entry says which sense applies to it.
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What Defines This GroupingTeachers who transmit knowledge and initiation to a disciple in the Indian traditions. In Sikhism the word has a specific meaning that does not transfer: ten human Gurus from Nanak to Gobind Singh, after whom the scripture itself is the Guru. 2 Size of the Traditional SetTen human Gurus, from Nanak to Gobind Singh; thereafter the Guru Granth Sahib is the eternal Guru. 2Tradition: Sikhism Learn More
The gurus
This group gathers gurus, spiritual teachers and guides in the Indian traditions, where the guru who transmits knowledge and initiation to a disciple holds a place of the highest reverence. In Sikhism the term has a specific and central meaning.
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