གུ་རུ

JH-ENG, JH-SKT, JH-C, IW, RY

guru

JH-ENG

[Tibetan transliteration of Sanskrit word, *]; teacher

OT

[356] (ལེགས) 

1) བླ་མདགེ་རྒན... 

2) ལྗིད་པ ...

JH-C

Comment: The word * literally means weighty or heavy, one whose continuum is weighty with the good qualities of scripture and realization (རྒྱུད་ལུངརྟོགསཀྱིཡོན་ཏན་གྱིས་ལྕི་བ

DM

See a ka ru.

JV

spiritual teacher

IW

[Skt] /(1 lama, teacher, *, master; 

2) heavy, weighty [i.e. laden w qualities]

RY

1) *, lama, teacher, master.

 2) Guru Rinpoche, Guru Padmasambhava [most often]. 

3) The Sanskrit literally means "heavy", laden / loaded with qualities