Yang Xuanzhi

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yang Xuanzhi ( 楊衒之  /  杨炫之 ) was a Chinese prose writer and translator of texts of Mahayana - Buddhism into Chinese. He lived in the 6th century during the Northern Wei Dynasty . He is the author of the famous work Luoyang qielan ji ( 洛陽 伽藍 記  /  洛阳 伽蓝 记  - "Report on the Buddhist monasteries in Luoyang ").

literature

  • Yang Xuanzhi (Author), Yi-t'ung Wang (Translator): A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-Yang . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1983
  • William John Francis Jenner : Memories of Lo-yang: Yang Hsuan-chih and the Lost Capital (493-534) . Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York 1981.
  • Fan Xiangyong (范 祥 雍): Luoyang qielan ji jiaozhu (洛阳 伽蓝 记 校 注). Zhonghua shuju, Beijing 1978
  • Zhou Zumo (周祖 谟): Luoyang qielan ji jiaoshi (洛阳 伽蓝 记 校 释). Zhonghua shuju, Beijing 1963

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Yang, Xuanzhi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 杨 炫 之; 楊 衒 之
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese prose author and translator of Mahayana Buddhist texts into Chinese
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century or 6th century
DATE OF DEATH 6th century or 7th century