Biblical: teacher: slob dpon las slob ma mi che/ a student is not above his teacher (Mt. 10:24), slob dpon byed nus pa/ able to teach (2 Tim. 2:24), slob dpon mang por ma gyur cig not many of you should presume to be teachers (Jas. 3:1).
Buddhist: The Bst. scriptures encourage students to view their teachers as the Buddha himself and to overlook any flaws he may have (JPG 31). slob dpon/ 1) a term of respect for an aged and wise teacher (AMD); 2) a spiritual master [Skt. acarya]: rgya gar nas slob dpon ku mar dang /,,bal yul gyi slob dpon shi la man ju zhu ba gdan drangs/ [he] invited the teacher Kumara from India and the teacher Silamanju from Nepal (TRC 113); slob dpon chen po pad ma 'byung gnas/ the great teacher Padmasambhava (TRC 113).
Cognates: 1) slob mkhan/ teacher slob mkhan rnams la khrims lhag par dam po gcad par nges pas/ we who teach will be judged more strictly (Jas. 3:1); 2) slob 'khrid/ or 'khrid dpon/ lead teacher (TRC 51); 3) slob ma/ disciple.
Biblical: teacher: ston pa lags/ Teacher (Mt. 22:16).
Buddhist: ston pa/ 1) an honorific form used to refer to the founder of a religion such as Jesus or the Buddha (AMD): ston pa chen po rnams kyis rang gi rjes 'brangs slob ma rnams ma rig pas kun nas bslangs pa'i sdig spyod kyi lam las skyabs/ the great teachers wanted to lead their followers away from the paths of negative deeds caused by ignorance (DLP 18); 2) the Buddha (KTM): ston pa sangs rgyas/ or ston pa sha kya mu ni/ Buddha the teacher (TRC 76/112), ston pa phun sum tshogs pa/ an excellent teacher, one of the five excellences or phun sum tshogs pa lnga/ (TRI 172), ston pa yang dag pa/ the perfect teacher (TRC 73); 3) teachers of other Bst. schools: mu stegs pa'i ston pa drug the six teachers of the extremist school (TRC 27).
Proverbs: 1) bla ma spyan ras gzigs dang dbyer med du/ [seeing] the teacher as not different from Chenresi (HTE 182); 2) dge rgan bzang po'i dge phrug from a good teacher come good children (TQP 64).