guruhood

See also: Guruhood

English

Alternative forms

• Guruhood

Etymology

From guru +‎ -hood.

Noun

guruhood (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of a guru
   • 1992, Catherine Cornille, The Guru in Indian Catholicism:

     According to Agehananda Bharati, the famous Tantric scholar, diksha forms the essence of guruhood: The notion of diksha provides us, as a semantic by-product so to speak, with a definition of a guru —[...]

   • 2000, Bidyutlatā Rāẏa, Facets of Vedic studies:

     Model Gurus of Indian Tradition: From the time of Brihaspati and Dakshinamurti we have had ancient models of Guruhood in India.

   • 2004, The Sikh Review:

     Indeed, with them the words and message of the Guru as transmitted to them were considered as Guru, guruhood being supposed to have been transmitted to them through the words and the message and the mission that went with them.

   • 2009, Lake Lambert III, Spirituality, Inc.: Religion in the American Workplace:

     Rather than trying to understand the basis of guruhood, another means to grasp the phenomenon is to classify those who are recognized as gurus.