Yáng Qǐyuán 楊起元 (zì Zhēnfù 貞復, hào Fùsuǒ 復所; 1547–1599 CE), a native of Guīshàn 歸善 (modern Huìzhōu 惠州, Guǎngdōng), was a major Ming literatus and lay Buddhist commentator associated with the Tàizhōu 泰州 school of Wáng Yángmíng 王陽明 neo-Confucianism. He passed the jìnshì in 1577 (Wànlì 萬曆 5) and rose to high office, serving as Lord of Nánjīng’s Court of Imperial Stud (太僕寺卿) and Vice-Censor in Chief (副都御史). He was a disciple of Lùo Rǔfāng 羅汝芳 (1515–1588), a leading Tàizhōu-school philosopher who emphasized the liángzhī 良知 (innate knowing) doctrine.
Yáng wrote extensively on both Confucian and Buddhist topics, and his Wéimó jīng píngzhù 維摩經評註 (KR6i0103) is one of the major late-Ming literary engagements with the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra. His other works include the Zhèngxué biān 證學編 and the Fùsuǒ wénjí 復所文集. The Mǐng shǐ 明史 (juan 283) carries his biography in the section on Confucian masters.
He died in 1599 at age 53.