Editing Shambhala Training (section)

=== Curriculum ===
Though Shambhala Training is a personal, ongoing practice of meditation and engaged activities, the Shambhala Training curriculum is presented in a series of progressive weekend programs, and then longer retreats. "The Heart of Warriorship" curriculum consist of five weekend programs with each weekend followed by a corresponding 'Everyday Life' class.  The latter seven weekends are called "The Sacred Path," as follows:

====The Heart of Warriorship====
* Level I: The Art of Being Human
* Meditation in Everyday Life
* Level II: Birth of the Warrior
* Contentment in Everyday Life
* Level III: Warrior in the World
* Joy in Everyday Life
* Level IV: Awakened Heart
* Fearlessness in Everyday Life
* Level V: Open Sky
* Wisdom in Everyday Life

====The Sacred Path====
* Great Eastern Sun
* Windhorse
* Drala
* Meek
* Perky
* Outrageous and Inscrutable
* Golden Key

====Warrior Assembly====
The Warrior Assembly is a residential program of less than two weeks' duration. These weekends are intended to be completed in order. Windhorse and Drala are sometimes exchanged in the sequence. Students may then continue onto an intensive nine- to fourteen-day-long residential retreat called Warriors Assembly. Practices and root texts are made available as students complete the prerequisite study and practice stages. However, it is claimed by Shambhala adherents that much of their content is found in the book [[Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior]] and others.<ref>Seager, pp 133</ref>

During the Sacred Path weekends and Warriors Assembly, students study Shambhala texts composed by Chögyam Trungpa, as well as practices such as that of the stroke of [[Stroke (Chinese character)|ashé]]. The stroke of ashé was first produced on the night of October 25, 1976, while Trungpa was leading a three-month seminary in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin.<ref>Mukpo, pp 220-223</ref> It was followed by subsequent texts, some of which were considered to be [[Terma (Buddhism)|terma]], which were received over the next few years.<ref>Midal, (2001), pp 220-232</ref>