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Lama (Skt. guru; Tib. བླ་མ་, Wyl. bla ma as the contraction of bla na med pa) — a spiritual teacher.

the individual teacher who is the holder of the lineage (Tib. གང་ཟག་བརྒྱུད་པའི་བླ་མ་, gangzak gyüpé lama, Wyl. gang zag brgyud pa'i bla ma)
the teacher which is the word of the buddhas (Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་བཀའ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, gyalwa ka yi lama, Wyl. rgyal ba bka' yi bla ma)
the symbolic teacher of all appearances (Tib. སྣང་བ་བརྡ་ཡི་བླ་མ་, nangwa da yi lama, Wyl. snang ba brda yi bla ma)
the absolute teacher, which is rigpa, the true nature of mind (Tib. རིག་པ་དོན་གྱི་བླ་མ་, rigpa dön gyi lama, Wyl. rig pa don gyi bla ma)

The practice of guru yoga
'The Guru Question'—Drukchen Rinpoche explains in an interview that was carried out for Rigpa's View magazine in 1997, what the guru or lama really is from the Vajrayana point of view.

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	'''Lama''' (Skt. ''guru''; Tib. [[བླ་མ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''bla ma'') — a spiritual teacher.		'''Lama''' (Skt. ''guru''; Tib. [[བླ་མ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''bla ma'' as the contraction of ''bla na med pa'') — a spiritual teacher.

	==The Four Kinds of Teacher (Tib. ''lama nampa shyi'')==		==The Four Kinds of Teacher (Tib. ''lama nampa shyi'')==