Shěn Línshì 沈麟士 (419–503), zì Yúnzhēn 雲禎, was a major Southern Dynasties classicist and recluse-scholar, a native of Wúxīng 吳興 Wǔkāng 武康. His biographies are Nán Qí shū 南齊書 j. 54 (Gāoyì zhuàn 高逸傳) and Liáng shū 梁書 j. 51 (Chǔshì zhuàn 處士傳); the dates 419–503 are firmly attested by both. Across the eighty-five years of his life he refused office from the LiúSòng, Southern Qí and Liáng courts in turn — even after explicit imperial summonses — preferring to teach hundreds of disciples on Wúkāng mountain. He is regarded as one of the great recluse-classicists of the Southern Dynasties.
He was a participant in the Southern Qí yíxià 夷夏 polemic — the great Daoist–Buddhist controversy launched by Gù Huān 顧歡’s Yíxià lùn 夷夏論 and continued by Zhāng Róng 張融 and Zhōu Yóng 周顒. Shěn’s Bó Yíxià lùn 駁夷夏論 is preserved in Sēng Yòu’s 釋僧祐 Hóngmíng jí 弘明集. He composed commentaries on the Yì, the Shàng shū, the Lǐjì, the Chūnqiū, the Sūnzǐ bīngfǎ, and an extensive zǐ-house work, the Shàozǐ 少子. In the Kanripo corpus he is the attributed author of KR3a0139 Shàozǐ. CBDB has no entry.