Editing Shambhala Training (section)

==Root Texts==
Chögyam Trungpa wrote a number of Shambhala texts throughout his life, and also received a number of them as [[Terma (religion)|terma]]. Long-time students and members of his Nalanda Translation Committee elaborated on his reception of terma in a 2006 newsletter:

{{blockquote|At the first Kalapa Assembly in the fall of 1978, during one of our translation sessions with the Vidyadhara, Larry Mermelstein engaged him in an interesting discussion about the nature of the Shambhala texts he was presenting to us. When asked whether they were terma (“treasure teachings” hidden long ago to be discovered at an appropriate time in the future), he replied, “Yes, sort of.” When we asked whether we should include the terma mark to indicate terma in our translations, his response was, “Not yet; maybe later.” In fact, this did not come to pass until after his death, when Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche instructed us to include this in our future publications of these texts, and he confirmed with no hesitation that they were indeed authentic terma.

When we asked the Vidyadhara whether these texts originated with Padmakara, the source of the vast majority of treasure teachings, at that time we didn’t know that other teachers also hid dharma as termas. So when Rinpoche replied that these texts were more likely from Gesar, we were understandably puzzled. But after a long pause Rinpoche added, “And of course Gesar was an emanation of Padmakara, so that should take care of things for you!” When we asked about what meaning Gesar had in terms of the Shambhala teachings, Rinpoche exclaimed: “Gesar is the vanguard of Shambhala.” (...in other contexts, the Vidyadhara indicated that the Shambhala terma had originated with the Rigden kings, [[Shiwa Ökar]], or [[Gesar]] of Ling.)<ref name="shambhala.org">[http://www.shambhala.org/ntc/pdf/NTC-newsletter-06.pdf Nalanda Translation Committee. Newsletter, 2006-7. pg 1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820053742/http://www.shambhala.org/ntc/pdf/NTC-newsletter-06.pdf |date=2008-08-20 }}</ref>}}

===Selected writings===
====Written or received in Tibet====
* ''The Epic of Lha''<br />Written and lost as Trungpa fled the Communist invasion of Tibet in 1959, the first two chapters were subsequently reconstructed in the west.<ref>Kornman, Robin. "The Influence of the Epic of King Gesar on Chögyam Trungpa," in ''Recalling Chögyam Trungpa'', edit. Fabrice Midal. pgs 364</ref> It was "a spiritual account of the history of Shambhala."<ref>Trungpa, Chögyam. ''Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior''. Shambhala Publications. pg 6</ref>
* ''The Ocean of the Play of Buddha Activity: A Daily Supplication to the Warrior Gesar, the Great Being Döndrup, King of Werma, Tamer of Enemies''<br />Written in July or August 1958 at Yak Monastery in eastern Tibet, at the request of Namkha Drimed Rinpoche.<ref name="shambhala.org"/>

====Written or received in the west====
* ''Golden Sun of the Great East''<br />Received as terma on October 27 or 28, 1976.<ref name="Midal, Fabrice 2004. pg 225">Midal, Fabrice. ''Chögyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision'' Shambhala Publications: 2004. {{ISBN|1-59030-098-X}} pg 225</ref> The ''Auto-Commentary'' to the text was dictated over the following few days.<ref>Hayward, Jeremy. ''Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa'' Wisdom Publications: 2007. {{ISBN|0-86171-546-2}} pgs 141</ref>
* ''Letter of the Black Ashe''<br />Received as terma on January 15, 1978.<ref>Midal, Fabrice. ''Chögyam Trungpa: His Life and Vision'' Shambhala Publications: 2004. {{ISBN|1-59030-098-X}} pg 226</ref><ref>Hayward, Jeremy. ''Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa'' Wisdom Publications: 2007. {{ISBN|0-86171-546-2}} pgs 177-78</ref>
* ''Letter of the Golden Key that Fulfills Desire''<br />Received as terma on October 5, 1978.<ref name="Midal, Fabrice 2004. pg 225"/>
* ''The Rigden Abhiṣheka''<br /> Composed on February 9, 1979.
* ''Scorpion Seal of the Golden Sun''<br />Received during the 1980 Seminary in Europe.<ref>Hayward, Jeremy. ''Warrior-King of Shambhala: Remembering Chögyam Trungpa'' Wisdom Publications: 2007. {{ISBN|0-86171-546-2}} pgs 235</ref> A long and a short version exist.
* ''The Roar of the Werma: The Sādhana of the Warrior''<br />Adapted by Chögyam Trungpa from the ''Scorpion Seal of the Golden Sun'' in May 1980 in Patzcuaro, Mexico.

===Published lectures and commentaries===
* ''Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior''<br />Published in 1984, based on lectures and written material by Chögyam Trungpa, reviewed and edited by a number of students and other individuals, including [[Ken Wilber]], and finalized by Carolyn Rose Gimian.<ref>''Gimian, Carolyn Rose''. "Editor's Preface," Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior. Shambhala Publications pgs 5-9</ref>
* ''Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala''<br />Published posthumously in 1999, based primarily on lectures Trungpa delivered as part of the Level 5 of the Heart of Warriorship Shambhala Training program, and edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian.<ref>Gimian, Carolyn Rose. "Editor's Afterword" Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala by Chögyam Trungpa. Shambhala Publications: 1999</ref>