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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. How does the Dalai Lama claim a person can minimize the consequences of death?

2. What is the English word for bardos?

3. What did Buddha say that humankind repeats?

4. What is good in the middle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Buddha learn about meditation?

2. How can one train the mind to meditate?

3. What proof does Sogyal offer that there is reincarnation?

4. What does I mean?

5. Describe Sogyal's first experience with death.

6. Why does Khyentse chuckle when Tseten passes away?

7. How did Sogyal find the present moment?

8. What does a person need at the point of death?

9. Decribe Sogyal's childhood.

10. What is Dzogchen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Rinpoche's life. In what way do you think his life and personality is reflected in the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Examine the stories Rinpoche tells through the book.

1) Are the stories more symbolic than than they are true?

2) Choose one of the stories and discuss it's meaning in relation to Rinpoche's teachings.

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