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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. What does the opening of one's heart allow for?

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

3. What can compassion lead the dying to?

4. What is Tonglen?

5. What does the first practice in Phowa involve?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sogyal state we assist the dying?

2. What have those people who have experienced death or near death reported about it?

3. How does Sogyal define compassion?

4. Describe Sogyal's master's death.

5. How can one expand their lifespan?

6. What is included in appendix one.

7. What is Ground Luminosity?

8. What is tantric buddhism?

9. What does Sogyal hope his book will achieve?

10. How can one transform their pain when watching a loved one dying?

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

What major events had a profound affect on Rinpoche's beliefs and how did they change him? What does Rinpoche still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Write a 500-word essay on the following statement: Westerners are slaves to materialism.

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