Jízàng 吉藏 (549–623 CE), Suí-Tang Chinese Buddhist master, the consolidator of the Sānlùn 三論 (Three-Treatise / Mādhyamaka) school in China. According to the Xù gāosēng zhuàn 續高僧傳 (T2060, juan 11), Jízàng was of Parthian descent (his great-grandfather had migrated from An-xi 安息) but native to the lower-Yangzi region; he became a monk under Fǎlǎng 法朗 at the Xìnghuángsì 興皇寺 in Jiànkāng (the Sānlùn lineage descending from Sēngrúi 僧叡 → Tánqìng 曇慶 → Fǎlǎng → Jízàng) and rose to become the principal Sānlùn teacher of his generation, abbot of the Jiāxiángsì 嘉祥寺 in Kuàijī (whence his common epithet 嘉祥大師 “Great Master of Jiāxiáng”); under Suí Yángdì he was honoured as one of the Four Teachers of the Imperial Lectures (四道場主).
His commentarial output is enormous and includes commentaries on virtually every major Mahāyāna sūtra: the Lotus, the Vimalakīrti, the Mahāparinirvāṇa, the Sukhāvatīvyūha, the three Mādhyamika treatises, and most of the Prajñāpāramitā corpus. He is the principal Sān-lùn doctrinal author and the figure through whom Mādhyamika became a fully-developed Chinese-language doctrinal system. Per DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001067.
Works in the Kanripo corpus: numerous including KR6c0007 Dàpǐn jīng yóuyì (T1696); KR6c0009 Dàpǐn jīng yìshū (X451); commentaries on the Lotus, Vimalakīrti, and Mādhyamika treatises in KR6h; and many others.