• 150,000: Refuge
• 1,000:  Tong-len practice
• 50,000:  Mandala offering
• 50,000:  Guru yoga migtsema on the basis of Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
• 40,000:  Vajrasattva
• 4,000:  Water bowl offerings
• 200,000:  Dorje Khadro
• 1,000:  Tsa-tsas: Vajrasatta and Eight Medicine Buddhas.

There is no specific number of prostrations, but you should do one hundred every day if you can. Many great practitioners in the past would do this, for example, Purchok Ngawang Jampa would do one thousand every day. If you are able to do some prostrations every day—one hundred prostrations or half that amount—by reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas, that is excellent.

Do as many nyung nä every year as you can. As I told you, doing one nyung nä well purifies the negative karma of the lower realms and you will go to the pure land. It’s a quick way to purify negative karma and achieve enlightenment. Do whatever you can, at least one, two, three, four, five, eight or more. Do as many as possible. There are many people who do one hundred nyung näs. One lama, Drubchog Rinpoche, did two thousand and his past life’s disciple did three thousand. Geshe Lama Konchog did two thousand.

After you have studied the lam-rim completely from beginning to end, train your mind in effortful realization for one month by following the lam-rim outline. When you finish the outline do it over and over again during that one month, so according to how much time you have, you can finish the outline. You can do an abbreviated [version] each day and what you cannot do that day, then carry on with that the next day. Follow the outline like that four times then start effortless experience.

• The graduated path of the lower capable being: five months
• The graduated path of the middle capable being: three months
• The graduated path of the higher capable being:
  
  • Bodhicitta: ten months
  • Emptiness: two months

This is the way you have to practice meditation for quite a number of years. What you should learn, of course, is mainly lam-rim but you can learn other Dharma, the philosophical texts. You can learn these also—as you get the opportunity, you can learn.