Jippan 實範 (d. 1144) — Mid-Heian Japanese Vinaya (Ritsu 律) scholar and Shingon Esoteric practitioner, also accounted one of the six patriarchs of medieval Japanese Pure Land Buddhism (Jōdo rokuso 浄土六祖). Kyōto-born. Founder of the Nakagawa Vinaya tradition (中川流) — a mid-Heian movement that synthesised Vinaya scholarship with Esoteric practice and Pure Land devotion. By-names: Nakagawa Daitoku 中川大徳 (“the Mid-river great-virtue”); Shōshō Shōnin 少將上人 (“the Lesser-General Shōnin”); Nakagawa Risshi 中川律師 (“the Mid-river Vinaya-master”); secular surname Fujiwara 藤原.
His principal canonical work is Dōngdàsì jiètányuàn shòujièshì 東大寺戒壇院受戒式 (KR6t0047, T74n2350), the precisely-dated mid-Heian Tōdaiji ordination ceremony manual of Hōan 3 (= 1122). It is the principal medieval Japanese kaidan manual preserved in the Taishō canon. He was also a student of Genku 源空 (Hōnen, 1133–1212) in the standard medieval Japanese hagiographical tradition — though this relationship is disputed in modern scholarship.
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001616 confirms his death in 1144–1145 (per the Bukkyō daijiten; reference: 佛光 5791).
Works:
- KR6t0047 Dōngdàsì jiètányuàn shòujièshì 東大寺戒壇院受戒式 (T74n2350), 1 fasc., dated Hōan 3 = 1122.