Zhi Yao () was a Buddhist author or translator active in China and first mentioned in Sengyou's Collected Records Concerning the Tripitaka, a catalogue published in 515 CE of Buddhist texts translated into Chinese. The text suggests he was contemporary with the translator Lokakṣema, who lived in the second half of the second century CE during the Han dynasty.
There is only one sentence regarding Zhi Yao in Sengyou's work, found in the section on Lokakṣema, that says only, "at that time there was also Zhi Yao, who translated the Chengju guangming jing." The catalog states this text, which can be rendered in English as The Sutra on the Completion of Brightness (), was produced during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, which would place it somewhere in the range of 168 to 190 CE.