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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20: "The Near-Death Experience: A Staircase to Heaven?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sogyal state the dying are being challenged?
(a) Negativity
(b) Buddha
(c) Samsara
(d) Their past lives

2. What sacred lake does Kyentse visit in this chapter?
(a) Yamdrok Tso
(b) Lhasa Tso
(c) Vlkava Tso
(d) Illsbruck Tso

3. Which of the following is not one of the four Bardos?
(a) The luminous bardo of dharmata
(b) The painful bardo of dying
(c) The mechanical Bardo of materialism
(d) The natural bardo of life

4. What did Sogyal experience at the age of seven?
(a) Death
(b) Hate
(c) War
(d) Love

5. What does the word Rinpoche mean?
(a) Special one
(b) Sublime death
(c) Loving spoonful
(d) Precious one

Short Answer Questions

1. What should one see their master as in order to receive full benefits of his teachings?

2. What does Sogyal claim one in four Americans believe in?

3. What does one need to cleanse during Phowa?

4. What does Phowa allow one to do?

5. What must one practice prior to the removal of the body?

(see the answer key)

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