Research interests
Authority in religious systems of meaning.
Significance of music and ritual for traditional accounts of ethics.
Reception of Sanskrit Buddhist exegesis in Chinese commentarial literature; terminological strategies; traditional accounts of the normativity of translations.
Esoteric Buddhism; narratives of transmission.
Secrecy and incommunicability as artefacts within religious communication.
Ming- and Qing-period popular ethics, scriptures on destiny and divination.
Problems related to contemporary revisions of traditional religious and philosophical literature; gender theory and the study of religion.
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martin.lehnert@lmu.de
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