| Yang Xuanzhi | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊衒之 陽衒之 羊衒之 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨炫之 阳衒之 羊炫之 | ||||||||
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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.