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Elephant Magazine, Winter 2006<\/p>\n
Dr. Reggie Ray is one of the first examples of an historical synthesis: the wisdom of the East and the technological know-how of the West. That\u2019s not just hype: until 1959, when the Reds rolled through Tibet, Buddhism was something you read about in National Geographic. Then, suddenly, in a diaspora equal to the genocide that caused it, 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom found itself forcibly exported across the snowy Himalayas. Ch\u00f6gyam Trungpa was perhaps foremost among these Tibetan gurus\u2014leaving behind his monk\u2019s robes for suits & sake, he put his ancient tradition into terms accessible and relevant to a new America. Among his first students was a young, precocious scholar by the name of Reggie Ray. 30 years later, Dr. Ray is an Acharya\u2014an honorific similar to \u2018Master\u2019 or \u2018Roshi\u2019\u2014and, with Pema Ch\u00f6dron, one of the best in the West at communicating the everyday profundity of the East.<\/p>\n