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Natasha L. Mikles is a lecturer in Tibetan and Chinese Religions at Texas State University 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 the��dMyal gling rDzogs pa Chen po”(Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines��2016) and��“Tracking the��Tulpa?:��Exploring the��‘Tibetan Origins of a��Contemporary Paranormal Idea” (NovaReligio��2015).��Prior to her appointment at Texas State, Natasha was completing her doctoral degree at the University of Virginia (2017), for which she received the Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship.