NatashaMikles
- Lecturer
- TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Natasha L. Mikles is a lecturer in Tibetan and Chinese Religions at Texas State Թ and the current Secretary-General of the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists. Her research examines the intersection of Buddhist hell literature and the Gesar epic, especially as it relates to the late 19th-century promotion of Dzogchen practices among Nyingma monasteries in Khams. Her articles include“Buddhicizing the Warrior-King Gesar in thedMyal gling rDzogs pa Chen po”(Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines2016) and“Tracking theTulpa?:Exploring the‘Tibetan Origins of aContemporary Paranormal Idea” (NovaReligio2015).Prior to her appointment at Texas State, Natasha was completing her doctoral degree at the Թ of Virginia (2017), for which she received the Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship.