esoteric school
C18056
concept
An esoteric school is an institution or group that imparts hidden, specialized, or mystical knowledge and practices to a select group of initiated students.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| esoteric school canonical | 5 |
| Sufi school | 2 |
| Chinese esoteric tradition | 1 |
| Daoist school | 1 |
| esoteric Buddhist teaching lineage | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: esoteric school
Generated description
An esoteric school is an institution or group that imparts hidden, specialized, or mystical knowledge and practices to a select group of initiated students.
Instances (10)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Lamdré lineage | esoteric Buddhist teaching lineage |
| Builders of the Adytum | — |
| Basra school of early Sufism | Sufi school |
| Neidan | Chinese esoteric tradition |
| School of Spiritual Science | — |
| B.O.T.A. | — |
| BOTA | — |
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Paul Foster Case
surface form:
Builders of the Adytum
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— |
| School of the Dao | Daoist school |
| Baghdad school of Sufism | Sufi school |