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. What does Sogyal state there is no need to die in?
(a) Unhappiness
(b) Hospital
(c) Pain
(d) Negativity

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

3. What does the deceased remain linked to during the first 21 days of the bardo of becoming?
(a) The Lord of Death
(b) His or her body
(c) Life
(d) Earth

4. What does those who died in suffering relive on the seventh day?
(a) Their worst moment
(b) Their birth
(c) Their best moment
(d) Their suffering

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 does one enter if they fail to recognize the Ground Luminosity?

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

3. Why had Khysentse and Sogyal traveled to Sikkim?

4. Where are the great liberation teachings based?

5. Who should not be allowed at a dying person's bedside?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 220 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample