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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16: "The Ground".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mtz g' translate to?
(a) Faith
(b) Love and death
(c) Longing and respect
(d) Giving yourself

2. What does Rinpoche believe his master was the embodiment of?
(a) Humanity
(b) Tibetan buddhism
(c) Jesus Christ
(d) Goodness

3. Who should not be allowed at a dying person's bedside?
(a) Grieving loved ones
(b) Negative people
(c) Acquaintances
(d) Doctors

4. What part of Tibet is Sogyal traveling through at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) The western highlands
(b) The Tibetan mountains
(c) The capital city
(d) The eastern highlands

5. What does a person need to know to avoid suffering?
(a) The process of dying
(b) Who his loved one's are.
(c) Unconditional love
(d) Compassion

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sogyal view the western ideas towards death as?

2. What is it customary not to do a dead body in Tibet for three days?

3. What does Dudjom's wife praise?

4. What state is the entire world in when Buddha wakes up from his meditation?

5. What ideas does the Dalai Lama discuss in this opening chapter?

(see the answer key)

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