Sasanians at the court of the Liang dynasty (502 - 557 AD) by Hamidreza Pashazanous

“…In the first half of the sixth century AD, northern China was riven by internal conflict, and in the south, there was a period of peace. The Liang dynasty ruled large parts of southern China from 502 to 557, and their capital hosted foreign monks and merchants. …”
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Emperor Wu of Liang’s Reinterpretation and Elevation of the Precepts as the Bodhisattva Ideal by Yoon Kyung Cho

“…This paper examines Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty (r. 502–549) and his efforts to reform the Buddhist <i>saṅgha</i> through the establishment of the bodhisattva precepts and the proclamation of the Prohibition of Alcohol and Meat. …”
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On the Shared Structure of the Early to High Tang Gexing and the Seven-Character Short Poem with a Discussion of “Kayō Jūei” as a Japanese Seven-Character Short Poem Sequence by Yi Yi Liu (劉一) Liu

“…The seven-character short poem [duan ge 短歌] is a distinct poetic form that originated in Han dynasty ballads and peaked during the Liang dynasty. It is closely related to the gexing 歌行 [song or song poem], a poetic form that also flourished during the Qi and Liang dynasties. …”
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DICEN LAS CRÓNICAS QUE UN MONJE BUDISTA... by Anamaría Ashwell

“…In AD 629, a group of official historians from the court of the Liang dynasty documented the extraordinary journey of five monks and their descriptions of the Fusang. …”
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GC-MS Fingerprinting Combined with Chemical Pattern-Recognition Analysis Reveals Novel Chemical Markers of the Medicinal Seahorse by Yuanyuan Jiang, Hongfei Wu, Paul Chi Lui Ho, Xuemei Tang, Hui Ao, Lu Chen, Jinjin Cai

“…Seahorse is a valuable marine-animal drug widely used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and which was first documented in the “Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu” during the Liang Dynasty. <i>Hippocampus kelloggi</i> (HK) is the most common seahorse species in the medicinal material market and is one of the genuine sources of medicinal seahorse documented in the Chinese pharmacopeia. …”
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中晚唐詩歌“學問化”研究 ：從類書與“類”的觀念切入= The “erudite” tendency in Middle and Late Tang poetry (760s-870s CE) : from the perspectives of category-books (Leishu) and the concept of "category"... by 王治田 Wang, Zhitian

“…The linked-verse activities in Zhe-dong and Zhe-xi in Dali Era (766-779 CE) revived the “allusion collection” activities once emerged in Qi and Liang dynasties (479-557 CE) and manifested great interest in competing in skills and plays in the composition of za-ti (miscellaneous style) poetry. …”
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