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{{Person
|MainNamePhon=Reginald A. Ray
|SortName=Ray, Reginald
|namefirst=Reginald
|namelast=Ray
|PersonType=Authors of English Works; Professors Emeritus; Western Buddhist Teachers
|bio=Reginald Ray (born 1942) is an American Buddhist academic and teacher.

Ray studied Tibetan Buddhism, traditional shamanic wisdom, and yogic-contemplative practices with the Tibetan refugee and recognized Vajrayana traditional-wisdom holder Chögyam Trungpa; and later studied under the tutelage of traditional Dagara teacher from Burkina Faso, 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). He left the Shambhala organization to found his own teaching center in 2005, Dharma Ocean. Dharma 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." ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Ray Source Accessed Dec 19, 2024])
|images=File:Ray Reggie.jpg
|yearbirth=1942
|associatedwebsite=https://www.dharmaocean.org/
|affiliation=Naropa University; Dharma Ocean
|education=Ph.D., Divinity School of the University of Chicago, 1973
|classification=People
}}