No, of course not –the guru, per se, doesn’t exist in Zen. Zen has teachers of course, but the distinction is an important one, especially in Tibetan Buddhist tantra, where “one’s teacher is seen as inseparable from the meditational deity and the Three Jewels of Refuge.” (That definition comes from the glossary in Introduction to Tantra, by Lama Yeshe.) Now, being that Chopra is spiritually concerned in a sometimes specific, sometimes dharmic way (and has written about the Buddha in long-prose and comic forms), it’s not surprising that some might get confused. But Tina Brown’s Daily Beast has in fact called him a “Zen guru,” in this report: