Editing Reginald Ray (section)

==Teaching career==
Ray first encountered his main Buddhist teacher, [[Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche]], in 1970, and studied with him until Rinpoche's death in 1987. In 1974, at the invitation of Trungpa Rinpoche, Ray left a tenure-track position at [[Indiana University]] and relocated to [[Boulder, Colorado]]—then the center of Trungpa Rinpoche's community–to become the first full-time faculty member and chair of the Buddhist Studies Department at Naropa University, where he taught until his retirement in July 2009.<ref name="Prebish 1999 p. 170">{{cite book | last=Prebish | first=C.S. | title=Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America | publisher=University of California Press | year=1999 | isbn=978-0-520-92225-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsHv_5VCzmMC&pg=PA170 | access-date=2020-12-14 | page=170}}</ref><ref name="pres">{{cite web | title=Reginald Ray | website=Naropa University | url=http://www.naropa.edu/presidents-office/past-presidents/Reginald%20Ray.php | access-date=2020-12-14}}</ref> Ray also served on the Nalanda Translation Committee<ref name="Nālandā Translation Committee 2016">{{cite web | title=Members | website=Nālandā Translation Committee | date=2016-10-25 | url=https://www.nalandatranslation.org/who-we-are/members/ | access-date=2020-12-14}}</ref> and held a half-time appointment in the Religious Studies department at the [[University of Colorado]].<ref name="Shambhala Times Community News Magazine 2014">{{cite web | title=Chogyam Trungpa: The Early Years | website=Shambhala Times Community News Magazine | date=2014-09-08 | url=http://shambhalatimes.org/2014/09/08/chogyam-trungpa-the-early-years/ | access-date=2020-12-14}}</ref>

From 1996 to 2004, Ray was teacher-in-residence at the [[Rocky Mountain Dharma Center]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Radner|first=Rebecca|title=Review: 'Indestructible Truth' by Reginald A. Ray|url=http://www.tricycle.com/node/32909|access-date=3 December 2014|newspaper=[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]]|date=Spring 2001}}</ref><ref name="pres"/> which became the [[Shambhala Mountain Center]] in February 2000. Ray is the director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Hamilton | first=Erica Shane | journal=Biofeedback | title=The Gifts of Illness: A Buddhist Perspective | volume=39 | issue=2 | date=Summer 2011 | pages=71–73 | doi=10.5298/1081-5937-39.2.05 | id={{ProQuest|893884557}}}}</ref>