What did the researcher do?

Dr. Benn is working on a scholarly translation of the scripture. His research traces the origins of the scripture’s unique doctrine and language, with particular attention to those elements borrowed from contemporary and earlier Chinese materials. He draws on the large number of later Chinese commentaries on the text to show how its ideas were received and interpreted. He is surveying the larger corpus of essays, poems, letters, treatises etc., in order to understand the importance of the text to the wider intellectual realm. The research will be published as a book.