Líng-biàn 靈辨 (477–522, conventional dates per the Xù gāosēng zhuàn 續高僧傳), Northern-Wèi Buddhist scholar-monk and author of the most extensive early Chinese commentary on the [[KR6e0001|Avataṃsaka jīng]] — the Huáyán jīng lùn 華嚴經論, of which only fascicle 10 (the [[KR6e0064|Rúlái guāng-míng jué pǐn 如來光明覺品]] commentary) survives in the Manji canon (X208). The work was originally in 100 fascicles per the Xù gāosēng zhuàn — making it the longest pre-Tang Chinese Avataṃsaka commentary — but was lost almost entirely with only this single fascicle preserved. Active in Luòyáng under the Northern Wèi imperial Buddhist establishment, Líng-biàn studied under the Indian monk Lènà Mótí 勒那摩提 / Ratnamati (one of the dual translators of the Daśabhūmika-vyākhyāna) and was thus a contemporary of 慧光 Huìguāng with closely-related doctrinal training.
His birth and death dates are not preserved with full certainty; the bracket 477–522 is conventional in the modern scholarship but the Xù gāosēng zhuàn simply records his floruit in early Northern Wèi.