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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 did Rinpoche do at he age of six months?
(a) Made a cake
(b) Walked
(c) Said Buddha
(d) Entered the monastry

2. Where are the great liberation teachings based?
(a) Taj Mahal
(b) Pimordial Buddha
(c) Elephantine Caves
(d) Dzogchen Tantras

3. What does Khysentse lead Samten through?
(a) Heaven
(b) The stages of death
(c) The Tibetan mountains
(d) His next life

4. What other character is also dying in this opening chapter?
(a) Kandro Tsering
(b) Sogyal
(c) Lama Tseten
(d) Khyentse

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does sem mean in English?

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

3. How can one overcome negative feelings when watching someone dying?

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

5. Who else does Sogyal say one must assist during this process?

(see the answer key)

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