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'''Reginald Ray''' (born 1942) is an [[Buddhism in the United States|American Buddhist]] academic and teacher.

Ray studied [[Tibetan Buddhism]], traditional [[Shamanism|shamanic]] wisdom, and yogic-contemplative practices with the [[Tibetan people|Tibetan]] refugee and recognized [[Vajrayana]] traditional-wisdom holder [[Chögyam Trungpa]]; and later studied under the tutelage of traditional [[Dagaaba people|Dagara]] teacher from [[Burkina Faso]], [[Malidoma Patrice Somé|Malidoma Somé]].

A founding academic member of [[Naropa University]], Ray was a longtime senior teacher in [[Vajradhatu]] (renamed [[Shambhala International]] in 2000) and from 1996 to 2004 was teacher-in-residence at the [[Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center]] (which became [[Shambhala Mountain Center]] in February 2000).<ref>{{cite news|last=Joiner|first=Whitney|date=20 February 2008|title=Dive-bar dharma|newspaper=[[Salon.com]]|url=http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2008/02/20/dharma_in_dive_bars|access-date=3 December 2014}}</ref> He left the Shambhala organization to found his own teaching center in 2005, Dharma Ocean. Dhama Ocean, in addition to teaching meditation programs and hosting intensive retreats, is a non-profit foundation "dedicated to the practice, study and preservation of the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche."{{cite quote}}