Yang Xuanzhi

Yang Xuanzhi
Traditional Chinese

Simplified Chinese

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYáng Xuànzhī
Wade–GilesYang Hsüan-chih

Yang Xuanzhi (fl. 6th century AD) was a Chinese official and translator of Mahayana Buddhist texts into the Chinese language during the Tuoba Northern Wei Dynasty in China's Northern and Southern dynastic period. He is primarily remembered as the author of a history of the Buddhist temples and monasteries of Luoyang in Henan Province, at the time the capital of the Wei Empire.