diff --git a/src/main/java/com/samskivert/mustache/Template.java b/src/main/java/com/samskivert/mustache/Template.java
index 1ae3c66..19907e9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/samskivert/mustache/Template.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/samskivert/mustache/Template.java
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ public class Template
      * the variable context that was in effect at the time the lambda was called.
      */
     public abstract class Fragment {
+        /** Returns the context object in effect for this fragment. The actual type of the object
+         * depends on the structure of the data passed to the top-level template. You know where
+         * your lambdas are executed, so you know what type to which to cast the context in order
+         * to inspect it (be that a {@code Map} or a POJO or something else). */
+        public abstract Object context ();
+
         /** Executes this fragment; writes its result to {@code out}. */
         public abstract void execute (Writer out);
 
@@ -107,14 +113,15 @@ public class Template
 
     protected Fragment createFragment (final Segment[] segs, final Context currentCtx) {
         return new Fragment() {
+            @Override public Object context () {
+                return currentCtx.data;
+            }
             @Override public void execute (Writer out) {
                 execute(currentCtx, out);
             }
-
             @Override public void execute (Object context, Writer out) {
                 execute(currentCtx.nest(context, 0, false, false), out);
             }
-
             private void execute (Context ctx, Writer out) {
                 for (Segment seg : segs) {
                     seg.execute(Template.this, ctx, out);
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/samskivert/mustache/MustacheTest.java b/src/test/java/com/samskivert/mustache/MustacheTest.java
index e0f9e2d..02b9bf3 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/samskivert/mustache/MustacheTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/samskivert/mustache/MustacheTest.java
@@ -665,16 +665,41 @@ public class MustacheTest
     }
 
     @Test public void testLambdaWithContext () {
-        test("a in l1, a in l2", "{{#l1}}{{a}}{{/l1}}, {{#l2}}{{a}}{{/l2}}",
-             context("l1", new Mustache.Lambda() {
-                 public void execute (Template.Fragment frag, Writer out) throws IOException {
-                     frag.execute(context("a", "a in l1"), out);
-                 }
-             }, "l2", new Mustache.Lambda() {
-                 public void execute (Template.Fragment frag, Writer out) throws IOException {
-                     frag.execute(context("a", "a in l2"), out);
-                 }
-             }));
+        test("a in l1, a in l2", "{{#l1}}{{a}}{{/l1}}, {{#l2}}{{a}}{{/l2}}", context(
+                 "l1", new Mustache.Lambda() {
+                     public void execute (Template.Fragment frag, Writer out) throws IOException {
+                         frag.execute(context("a", "a in l1"), out);
+                     }
+                 },
+                 "l2", new Mustache.Lambda() {
+                     public void execute (Template.Fragment frag, Writer out) throws IOException {
+                         frag.execute(context("a", "a in l2"), out);
+                     }
+                 }));
+    }
+
+    @Test public void testContextPokingLambda () {
+        Mustache.Compiler c = Mustache.compiler();
+
+        class Foo { public int foo = 1; }
+        final Template lfoo = c.compile("{{foo}}");
+        assertEquals("1", lfoo.execute(new Foo()));
+
+        class Bar { public String bar = "one"; }
+        final Template lbar = c.compile("{{bar}}");
+        assertEquals("one", lbar.execute(new Bar()));
+
+        test(c, "1oneone1one!", "{{#events}}{{#renderEvent}}{{/renderEvent}}{{/events}}", context(
+                 "renderEvent", new Mustache.Lambda() {
+                     public void execute (Template.Fragment frag, Writer out) throws IOException {
+                         Object ctx = frag.context();
+                         if (ctx instanceof Foo) lfoo.execute(ctx, out);
+                         else if (ctx instanceof Bar) lbar.execute(ctx, out);
+                         else out.write("!");
+                     }
+                 },
+                 "events", Arrays.asList(
+                     new Foo(), new Bar(), new Bar(), new Foo(), new Bar(), "wtf?")));
     }
 
     @Test public void testNonStandardDefaultDelims () {