Fǎlín 法琳 (DILA Authority A001855; 572–640) was an early-Táng Buddhist scholar-monk and apologist whose preface to the [[KR6h0006|Bǎoxīng tuóluóní jīng]] is preserved at the head of the Taishō text. The biographical sources are the Xù gāosēng zhuàn (T2060, 636b–639b). He was a native of Yǐngchuān 潁川 (modern Hénán); ordained young and trained in both Buddhist and Daoist learning, he settled in Cháng’ān during the early Táng. He served as one of the brush-holders (執筆) on the 波羅頗蜜多羅 Prabhākaramitra translation project of 629–630. He is principally remembered for his anti-Daoist polemical writings — the 《破邪論》 Pòxié lùn (KR6r0142, T2109, 2 juan, 622) and the 《辯正論》 Biànzhèng lùn (KR6r0143, T2110, 8 juan, 626) — composed in defence of Buddhism against the Daoist preference of the LǐTáng imperial house. The Biànzhèng lùn was the immediate cause of his imperial trial in Zhēnguān 13 (639); he was condemned and exiled, dying en route to Yìzhōu 益州 (Sìchuān) in 640. He is one of the principal sources for the institutional history of early-Táng Buddhism.