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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one need to cleanse during Phowa?

2. What is every person's right to die with?

3. What is the de lok witness?

4. What does Sogyal stress the need to do with one's pain?

5. What bardo does Sogyal discuss in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sogyal say in the second appendix?

2. What is the sleeping lion position?

3. Describe David Bohn's theory?

4. How can a person improve the karma of someone already dead?

5. What happens during the first few weeks of someone's death?

6. Describe the story about the monk who was lead to his death by the Chinese

7. How does compassion relate to Buddhism?

8. How can one expand their lifespan?

9. What is tantric buddhism?

10. What does Sogyal hope his book will achieve?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book Rinpoche states the importance of having a master.

1) What did Rinpoche's master teach him that he took forward in life.

2) How can Rinpoche use his master's teachings to pursue his own individual path.

Essay Topic 2

Rinpoche talks about things that are specific to Tibetan culture. Choose one of these cultural references and discuss its relevances to Tibetan culture in terms of the following:

1) History.

2) Identity.

3) Spirituality.

Essay Topic 3

Compare eastern and western culture.

1) What are the differences between the two cultures?

2) In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

3) In what way has the teaching of people like Rinpoche been westernized.

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