y of BuddhismMajor figuresPracticesCountriesSchoolsTextsRelated topicsview full indexIn the Theravada Buddhist tradition, the teacher is a valued and honoured mentor worthy of great respect and is a source of inspiration on the path to Enlightenment, however the teacher is not generally considered to be a guru but rather a spiritual friend or Kaly?????a-mittat??.In the Tibetan tradition, the guru