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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 one need to cleanse during Phowa?

2. Who does Sogyal say he admires?

3. What must one experience every seven days during this bardo?

4. What have some people dismissed near death experiences as?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sogyal's master's death.

2. Who does Sogyal dedicate his book to?

3. Summarize The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

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

5. Why is the bardo of dharmata rarely discussed in Tibeten Buddhism?

6. How can a person improve the karma of someone already dead?

7. What is the sleeping lion position?

8. How does compassion relate to Buddhism?

9. What is included in appendix one.

10. What are the de lok?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Examine meditation.

1) How does Rinpoche think one should meditate? Is this a variation on other meditation techniques?

2) What is the main goal is of mediation? How are the techniques used in meditation supposed to help us achieve this goal?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the following statement. Rinpoche's promotion of his religion disguises the long running problems with his country that continues today. Find at least two examples in the book to support your argument.

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