View a FREE sample

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. How does Sogyal improve their next life?
(a) Dying in a positive state of mind
(b) Dying surrounded by loved ones
(c) Praying
(d) Meditating

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

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

4. What does Sogyal stress the need to do with one's pain?
(a) Take it over with positive thoughts
(b) Spread it evenly though the body
(c) Dedicate it to the benefit of others in pain
(d) Breathe it out

5. What does Sogyal recommend reading to the dead?
(a) The Old Testament
(b) The Tibetan Book of the Dead
(c) The Book of Karma
(d) The Tibetan Book of Dying and Living

Short Answer Questions

1. What is each step in life known as?

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

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

4. What does Samten often let Sogyal borrow?

5. Name Dzogchen's two fundamental processes?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 223 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample