Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c13.s3.t1.18

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Luoyang was the capital of the Sui and Tang dynasties in China and was one of the main centres of Buddhist interaction between the Indians and Chinese. In the first year of the reign of Emperor Yang in the Sui dynasty (605 CE), the emperor ordered a new capital to be built 18 miles to the west of Luoyang city of the Han and Wei dynasties. In the lunar January of the following year, the new city was completed. The city is south of Yique, north of Mangshan Hill, east of the Chanhe River and west of the Jianshui River and the Luoshui River flowed through it. Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty, the Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang dynasty and the later Tang dynasty rulers all had the city as their capital. Under the Tang dynasty, it was the secondary capital known as the Eastern Capital.