Fǎlín 法琳 (DILA Authority A001855; 572–640) was an early-Táng Buddhist scholar-monk and apologist whose preface to the 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 Lǐ-Táng 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.