A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luoyang is a work from the 6th century, recording the numerous Buddhist temples and social life of Luoyang, the capital of the Northern Wei empire in the early 6th century, written by Yang Xuanzhi (楊衒之). The author returned to Luoyang in the 5th year of the Wuding (武定) era of Emperor Wei Xiaojing (547), and seeing it destroyed and reduced to ruins, wrote this book to remember its lost splendor.