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NOTES 4114. An answer given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to a numberof questions on death and dying. See Appendix 2, note 1.5. Traditional practices such as this require training and cannot befollowed simply from this book. Certain practices also require transmissionand empowerment from a qualified master. I look forward toorganizing training programs in the future on the Buddhist approachto death and caring for the dying that will include some of thesemethods. A simple ceremony and guidance for the dead will then beavailable, based on the advice of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.6. The Hundred Syllable Mantra is OM VAJRA SATTVA SAMAYAMANUPALAYA VAJRA SATTVA TENOPA TISHTHA DRI DHO ME BHAWASUTOKHAYO ME BHAWA SUPOKHAYO ME BHAWA ANURAKTO ME BHAWASARWA SIDDHI ME PRAYATSA SARWA KARMA SUTSA ME TSITTAM SHRIYAMKURU HUM HA HA HA HA HO BHAGAWAN SARWA TATHACATA VAJRAMAMEMUNTSA VAJRIBHAWA MAHA SAMAYASATTVA AH.7. Judy Tatelbaum, The Courage to Grieve: Creative Living, Recoveryand Growth through Grief (New York: Harper & Row, 1980).8. From "Dove that Ventured Outside" in The Selected Poetry ofRainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell (NewYork: Vintage Books, 1984), 293.9. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in 'The Child Will Always Be There. RealLove Doesn't Die," by Daniel Coleman, Psychology Today (September1976), 52.10. Raymond A. Moody, Jr., Reflections on Life After Life (New York:Bantam, 1977), 112.20. THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE:A STAIRCASE TO HEAVEN?1. Bede, A History of the English Church and People, translated by LeoSherley-Price (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books 1968),420-21.2. In George Gallup Jr., with William Proctor, Adventures in Immortality:A Lock Beyond the Threshold of Death (London: Souvenir, 1983).3. Kenneth Ring, Life at Death: A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience (New York: Quill, 1982), 55.4. Ring, Life at Death, 63.5. Margot Grey, Return from Death: An Exploration of the Near-DeathExperience (Boston and London: Arkana, 1985), 42.6. Melvin Morse, Closer to the Light: Learning from Children's Near-Death Experiences (New York: Villard, 1990), 115.7. Grey, Return from Death, 47.8. Michael Sabom, Recollections of Death: A Medical Investigation ofthe Near-Death Experience (London: Corgi, 1982), 66.9. Ring, Life at Death, 59.10. Grey, Return from Death, 46.11. Grey, Return from Death, 33.