• I: The mode of Relying on a Spiritual Master, the foundation of the path.
  • Reliance through thought.
    • Cultivating faith, the root factor.
    • Cultivating respect through recollecting kindness.
  • Reliance through action.

• II: The stages of training based on such a reliance.
  • Persuading to Take the Essence of a Fully Endowed Human Existence.
    • Reflecting on the great value of leisure and fortune.
    • Reflecting on its rarity.
  • The manner in which to actually take the essence.
    • Training the mind in the stages of path common to the practitioners of initial capacity.
      • Meditating on Death Awareness.
      • Reflecting on the Sufferings of Lower Realms.
      • Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels.
      • Generating conviction in the Karmic Laws.
    • Training the mind in the stages of path common to those of middle capacity.
      • Generating the aspiration to Achieve Liberation from Cyclic Existence..
        • Reflecting on the suffering of cyclic existence in general.
        • Reflecting on the specific sufferings of individual realms.
      • Presentation of the nature of the paths leading to liberation.
    • Training the mind in the stages of path common to those of great capacity.
      • The mode of Cultivating Bodhichitta (mind of enlightenment).
        • The actual generation of the mind.
          • Generating bodhichitta through the instruction of seven-point cause and effect.
            • Meditation on equanimity.
            • The seven points.
              • Recognition that all beings as having been one's mother.
              • Recollection of their kindness.
              • Repaying the kindness.
              • Loving kindness.
              • Great compassion.
              • Superior attitude.
              • Bodhichitta.
          • Generating bodhichitta through the instruction on equality and exchange of oneself with others.
        • Reinforcing the generated altruistic mind through ceremony.
          • The way in which the vows are received.
          • How to protect the vows from degeneration.
      • The mode of engaging in the deeds following the generation of the altruistic mind.
        • Training in the bodhisattva deeds in general.
          • Generosity.
          • Morality.
          • Patience.
          • Joyous effort.
          • Concentration.
          • Wisdom.
          • The four ripening factors.
        • Training in the last two perfections in particular.
          • Training in calm abiding, the essence of concentration.
          • Training in Special Insight, the Essence of Wisdom (wisdom realizing emptiness)..
            • On the selflessness of persons.
            • On the selflessness of phenomena.
            • On non-inherent existence of compounded phenomena.
            • On non-inherent existence of uncompounded phenomena.

Source: HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss (Snow Lion)