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Lehnert, Martin

Prof. Dr. Martin Lehnert

Professor of East Asian Religion and Philosophy

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.

Contact

Oettingenstr. 67
D-80538 Munich

Room: D105
Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 9805
Fax: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 9801

Office hours:
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00 Uhr, by appointment.