Gurukula

The word in Sanskrit means Gurukula Guru's house. The word refers to the traditional Indian education and training method, according to which the students in the house of his teacher (Guru ) lived, this was, and was instructed by him in real life context.

This type of learning was not only for practical activities ( crafts ), but also for intellectual and spiritual disciplines ( Vedenstudium, vocal studies, temple dance, yoga ). Especially when the latter was from the "household" of the teacher often a monastery-like community ( ashram ), in which the students lived together after monkish kind and received spiritual instructions.

How many traditional Indian terms has been applied facilities even this newer religious or spiritual organizations on modern (own). The Christian missionary Christian Friedrich Schwartz taught in Tiruchirappalli Prince Serfoji ( later known as Serfoji II ) and another, slightly older students, Vedanayagam, now known as Vedanayagam Sastriar, according to the Gurukulam approach.

In the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the word " Gurukula " refers to boarding schools, where the children of members of this community were housed separately from their parents.

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