Career
Ray has a Bachelor in religion from Williams College (1965), and received an Master of Arts Among his mentors at Chicago was Mircea Eliade, a Romanian historian of religion. Ray also served on the Nalanda Translation Committee and held a half-time appointment in the Religious studies department at the University of Colorado. From 1997 to 2004, Ray was teacher-in-residence at the Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (now called Shambhala Mountain Center).
From 2004 through 2007, Dharma Ocean held meditation programs at the White Eagle Village facility in Crestone, Colorado.
In 2008, Dharma Ocean completed construction of the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center, also in Crestone, and began holding meditation retreats there.
