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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 is the View used to see?
(a) The absolute state
(b) A person's previous life
(c) Reality
(d) The afterlife

2. What does one need to cleanse during Phowa?
(a) Attitudes towards death
(b) Negative karma
(c) Desire
(d) An angry spirit

3. Whose death does Sogyal describe in this chapter?
(a) Khysentse
(b) Gandhi
(c) His own
(d) Sikkim

4. What is the only way to find enlightenment?
(a) To undertake a spiritual journey with a trained master
(b) To meditate daily
(c) To embrace death
(d) To always look for the truth

5. What is the name of the second phase of the bardo of dharmata?
(a) The Light Source
(b) The Union of Mind
(c) The Union of Deities
(d) The Living Death

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the four Bardos?

2. What does Sogyal say is the purpose of life?

3. What is the capital of Tibet?

4. Which of the following is a primary aspect?

5. What do relatives need to remain if they want to stay at the bedside of a dying loved one?

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