Lamrim outline: Preparatory practices
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
LR01 Lamrim Outline 
Jan 1, 1991 
I. Preeminent qualities of the compilers
II. Preeminent qualities of the teachings
III. How the teachings should be studied and taught
IV. How to guide students to enlightenment
- A. How to rely on spiritual teachers as the root of the path
- 1. What to do during the actual session
- a. The six preparatory practices
Preparatory practices
a. The six preparatory practices
- 1. Clean the room, set up the shrine
2. Obtain offerings properly and arrange them nicely
3. Sitting in the 8-point posture, in positive frame of mind, take refuge and generate bodhicitta
4. Visualize field of positive potential
5. Purifying and accumulating positive potential: 7 limbs and mandala offering
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.