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Lingyu

Lingyu (灵裕, 518–605) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Dilun tradition, honored as Yu Pusa, who survived the Northern Zhou persecution and carved the Baoshan grotto near Anyang.

Lingyuan

Lingyuan (凌源市) is a county-level city of Chaoyang, Liaoning, at the Liaoning–Hebei–Inner Mongolia junction; 3,278 km², 602,000 people, steel and glass industry, flower farming, Niuheliang Hongshan culture site.

Lingzhi (fungus) in Chinese culture

Lingzhi (灵芝) is a Ganoderma fungus revered in Chinese culture since the Han dynasty as a divine medicine of immortality, an auspicious omen, and the model for the ruyi scepter.

Lingzhi (mushroom)

Lingzhi, known in Japan as reishi and scientifically as Ganoderma lingzhi, is a shiny reddish-brown East Asian mushroom used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years.

Linh Nam chich quai

Linh Nam chich quai (Lĩnh Nam chích quái) is an anthology of Vietnamese legends and origin myths written in classical Chinese, collated by Vu Quynh in 1492.

Linh Pham

Linh Pham is an American-based economist specializing in energy and climate finance, known for research on green bonds and clean energy stocks, and is an associate professor at Lake Forest College in Illinois.

Linhai shuitu zhi

Linhai shuitu zhi (临海水土志) is a 3rd-century book by the Wu author Shen Ying, the earliest Chinese account of Yizhou, usually identified with Taiwan, and its people.

Linhao Zhang

Linhao Zhang is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Formation Bio, a New York pharma company using AI to develop in-licensed drug candidates, founded in 2016.

Linhares

Linhares, Espírito Santo, Brazil: municipality on the Rio Doce, founded 1809 and named for the Conde de Linhares, created 1833, restored 1943; known as the city of lakes, with Lagoa Juparanã and about 185,621 residents (2026 estimate).

Linhe power station

Linhe power station is an operating 1,050 MW coal-fired power station in Linhe Town, Lingwu, Ningxia, China, with three 350 MW units serving the Ningdong electrolytic aluminum project.

Linheng Li

Linheng Li is a molecular biologist and Stowers Institute investigator in Kansas City known for identifying the mammalian blood stem cell niche and stem cell quiescence signals.

Linhuan City Site

Linhuan City Site (临涣城址), Suixi County, Anhui: largest known pre-Qin walled city in Anhui, rammed-earth walls of 5,606 m perimeter, first built Spring and Autumn/Warring States, national heritage site 2006.

Linie 1

Linie 1 (Line 1), also known as Streetcar, is a Stefan Dorra tile-laying board game first published by Goldsieber in 1995, for 2-5 players who build a shared tram network and race trolleys; Spiel des Jahres 1995 recommended list, Deutscher Spiele Preis 2nd place.

Linifanib

Linifanib (ABT-869), an oral VEGF/PDGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor developed by Abbott for cancer; its phase III HCC trial against sorafenib failed the overall survival primary endpoint (9.1 vs 9.8 months).

Liniment

Liniment (embrocation): a liquid or semiliquid alcohol- or oil-based topical preparation rubbed into unbroken skin with friction, used mainly for muscle and joint pain; defined by the British Pharmacopoeia and regulated as an OTC external analgesic in the US.

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Link is the recurring hero and player character of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series, bearer of the Triforce of Courage; most games feature a different incarnation of the character.

Link 16

Link 16 is a secure, jam-resistant NATO and US tactical data link giving aircraft, ships, and ground units a common tactical picture updated in near real time.

Link adaptation

Link adaptation is a wireless transmission technique in which the transmitter adjusts modulation and coding, MIMO settings, and resources based on channel feedback to maximize throughput at a target error rate.

Link aggregation

Link aggregation, also called channel bonding, NIC teaming, or port trunking, combines multiple parallel network links into one logical link, increasing bandwidth and surviving individual link failures.

Link analysis

Link analysis is a family of graph algorithms that rank web pages by hyperlink structure, introduced by Kleinberg and by Brin and Page in 1998.

Link budget

A link budget is an equation accounting for all the gains and losses in power a communication signal experiences between transmitter and receiver, over wireless or wired media.

Link Click (时光代理人)

Link Click (时光代理人) is a Chinese original donghua by Li Haoling and bilibili about Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang entering photos to fix the past; two seasons, an Yingdu arc, live-action Chinese and Fuji TV dramas, MAL 8.72.

Link Lauren

Link Lauren (born 1999), TikTok handle @itslinklauren, is an American political commentator and former RFK Jr. 2024 senior adviser, later a MAGA-aligned Fox News contributor, 'MAGA Malfoy', and host of Spot On with Link Lauren on MK Media.

Link layer

The link layer, also called the network access layer, is the lowest layer of the Internet protocol suite, moving packets between neighboring nodes on one link.

Link Layer Discovery Protocol

The Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral IEEE 802.1AB link-layer protocol in which network devices advertise their identity and capabilities to adjacent neighbors, letting management systems map network topology.

Link light rail

Link light rail is a light rail system in the Seattle metropolitan area operated by Sound Transit, serving Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Lynnwood, and Federal Way.

Link protection

Link protection is a network survivability technique in which a backup path is arranged in advance so traffic affected by a link failure switches over automatically, within tens of milliseconds.

Link REIT

Link REIT is a Hong Kong-listed real estate investment trust created in 2005 to take over the Housing Authority's retail malls and car parks, with a portfolio of about HK$210 billion.

Link rot

Link rot (reference rot) is the decay of hyperlinks in citations as pages move, change, or vanish. Over 50% of Supreme Court opinion links and 38% of 2013 webpages are gone; countermeasures include Perma.cc, the Wayback Machine, and DOIs.

Link Trainer

The Link Trainer, nicknamed the "Blue Box" and marketed as the "Pilot Maker," was a mechanical flight simulator built from 1929 to 1972 by Edwin A. Link of Binghamton, New York.