Jinaratna (Jina·ratna जिनरत्न) was a Jain scholar monk who composed Līlāvatīsāra. He completed his poem in the year 1285 CE in Jabaliputra, western India, (modern Jhalor in Rajasthan) it is an epitome of a much larger work called composed in Jain Maharashtri, a Prakrit language, in 1036 by Jineshvara, also a Jain monk.
What little is known about Jinaratna, he states himself in the colophon he placed at the end of his poem, in which he gives the lineage of the succession of monastic teachers and pupils from Vardhamana, the teacher of Jineshvara who was the author of , to another Jineshvara who was Jinaratna’s own teacher.
Jinaratna studied literature, logic and the canonical texts of the White-Clad Jains, with Jineshvara and other monks. In his colophone he acknowledges the help he received from others in the preparation and correction of the text of Līlāvatīsāra.
Jinaratna in his introductory verses to Līlāvatīsāra describes how his interest in Jineshvara’s poem was stimulated by his own teacher. Jinaratna states that he began to write his epitome at the request of those who wished to concentrate on its narrative alone.
By writing in Sanskrit, the pan-Indian language of learned discourse, Jinaratna gave Līlāvatīsāra a far wider readership than was possible for Jineshvara’s , since it was written in the Prakrit Jain Maharashtri, a language with a more restricted currency.
Jinaratna displays his mastery of Sanskrit poetics by interspersing complex lyric metres throughout his poem. Not only does Jinaratna employ rare works and unusual grammatical forms drawn from the Sanskrit lexicons and grammars, but he also incorporates into his poem words taken from contemporary spoken vernaculars. Jinaratna’s language in the narrative portions of the poem is fast moving and direct, but it is far more ornate in his descriptions of cities, mountains, desert wilderness, battles, festivals, and other topics with which a Sanskrit epic should be embellished.
The Clay Sanskrit Library has published a translation of Līlāvatīsāra by R.C.C. Fynes under the title of The Epitome of Queen Lilávati (two volumes).
Jinah Kim (born 1972) is a Korean American reporter for NBC News and KNBC in Los Angeles, California. She is also President of the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She is the Co-Founder of WorldWiseProductions.com.
Jinah Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Los Angeles with her family when she was 6 years old. She grew up in Walnut, California. She attended UCLA, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Her career in journalism began as the editor of her high school newspaper. She went on to write for the Korea Times - English Edition and the Daily Bruin while at UCLA. She interned at CBS News in New York City. Jinah has also served as the assistant editor of KAGRO, a national Korean American magazine.
Kim's first full-time job in broadcast journalism came during her junior year at UCLA, when she began working as the weekend desk assistant and newswriter at KTLA in Los Angeles.
Kim moved on to KCCN, when it was a CBS affiliate, in Monterey, California, where she produced the 11 pm news. She then went on the report and anchor at KCBA, the FOX television station in Salinas, California.
In 1999, she became a reporter/fill-in anchor for KSWB-TV Channel 5 in San Diego, California. Just prior to that, she had a brief stint as a reporter at OCN in Orange County.
In February 2003 she moved to Denver, Colorado to work as a reporter and fill-in anchor at KUSA-TV, Channel 9.
She is now a Correspondent for KNBC, NBC News Channel and MSNBC in Los Angeles, California.
(born July 4, 1984) is a Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, actor, seiyū, television personality and former radio host. Akanishi is a member of the popular J-pop group, KAT-TUN, and is the one of the two lead vocalists. Since the group's debut in 2006, it has achieved 14 consecutive number ones (including studio albums) on the Oricon charts.[1][2]
Akanishi is also a budding actor with roles in the second season of popular NTV school drama, Gokusen, Anego and Yukan Club. He is also a co-host of KAT-TUN's own variety show, Cartoon KAT-TUN, and used to host a radio program called "KAT-TUN Style" with bandmate Junnosuke Taguchi from October 2007 to March 2008.
Born in Chiba Prefecture on July 4, 1984, Akanishi is the eldest child. His family consists of his parents and a younger brother, Reio, who also works in the entertainment industry as an actor under the stage name, Fuuta.[3] His given name, Jin ("benevolence"), comes from one of the five Confucian virtues. He moved to Tokyo in the first grade.[4] He is the best friend of Tomohisa Yamashita and the two remain close today.[5] When he was in grade school, a classmate sent in a photo of him to idol magazine, Myojo, and he was featured in the "Cool Classmates" corner of the issue.[6] Akanishi expressed interest in the entertainment industry and his mother thus sent in an application to Johnny's Entertainment on his behalf in 1998. Though he technically failed his audition on November 8, 1998, he was told to stay when he tried to return his number plate to a man who happened to be Johnny Kitagawa himself.[6]
After he was made a Johnny's Jr. member in 2000, Akanishi was part of a number of groups like Musical Academy Dancing, J2000 and B.A.D. before being drafted into a six-member unit in 2001 with other juniors Kazuya Kamenashi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Koki Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda and Yuichi Nakamaru. Though the group was originally meant to only be backup dancers for Koichi Domoto of KinKi Kids, the sextet's unexpected popularity led their agency to allow them to expand into a separate group called KAT-TUN, an acronym formed by the first letter of the members' surnames. Despite the group's popularity (they even released DVDs of their live concerts in 2003 and 2005 -- a first for JE groups that hadn't debuted), they were not allowed to make their bow until five years later.
KAT-TUN's debut on March 22, 2006 was marked by a tripartite release of their debut single, debut album and a DVD chronicling the making of their first music video. All three releases were immensely successful on the Oricon charts with "Real Face" and "Real Face Film" certified as the best-selling single and domestic music DVD of 2006 respectively. The group's next single, "SIGNAL", was also a massive hit debuting at number 1 and selling more than 500,000 copies.
Much to the Japanese public's surprise, Akanishi announced in a press conference on October 13, 2006 that he was leaving the country to study English abroad for an indefinite amount of time.[7] Despite his absence, KAT-TUN were obliged to continue its activities and released their third single and second studio album, "Bokura no Machi de" and Cartoon KAT-TUN II You, which both topped the charts.[8] Akanishi finally returned from Los Angeles after six months on April 19, 2007, an event which was accompanied by a massive nationwide media frenzy. He quickly resumed work by joining his bandmates on their nationwide tour on April 21.[9] All of KAT-TUN's subsequent singles and albums have since debuted at number 1 and the band has sold more than 6 million records in just over three years.[10]
Akanishi is also a songwriter having written songs for KAT-TUN and for himself, including "Care", "Hesitate", "Love or Like", "Lovejuice" and "Wonder", the latter being a collaboration with R&B artist, Crystal Kay.[11] He can play the guitar and has composed both music and lyrics for "", "ha-ha" and "Pinky". He also collaborated with bandmate Ueda to create the song, "Butterfly".
Staying on collaborations with Crystal Kay, Akanishi also features on the song Helpless Night from Kay's new greatest hits album Best of Crystal Kay.
On the recent event of tokyo girls collection jin apeared as a special guest to promote his new movie, Bandage, he performed the movie's theme song which marked this as the solo debute.
Akanishi made his debut as an actor in 1999 in a cameo appearance in the second episode of NTV's romance comedy, P.P.O.I., and also had small roles in TV Asahi's Best Friend, Omae no yukichi ga naiteiru and in NHK series, Haregi, Koko Ichiban. He also started appearing in musicals from 2000 taking on supporting roles in Millennium Shock (2000), Show Geki Shock (2001-2002), Dream Boy (2004) and Dream Boys (2006). Akanishi returned to the small screen in 2005 in the second season of the award-winning and popular NTV school drama, Gokusen, starring opposite Yukie Nakama and bandmate Kazuya Kamenashi. The show won "Best Drama" at the 44th Television Drama Academy Awards and ended its run with an average viewership rating of 27.8%.[12] He also had a supporting role in NTV's romance series, Anego, the same year.
In 2007, Akanishi starred in his first lead role in Yukan Club, a school comedy series, alongside bandmate Junnosuke Taguchi and was voted "Best Actor" at the 11th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix.[13] He made his debut as a voice actor in 2008 for the Japanese dub of Speed Racer, providing the voice for protagonist Speed played by Emile Hirsch.[14]
In 2009, Akanishi was cast as the lead actor in the movie, Bandage, directed by Takeshi Kobayashi and which is scheduled for release in 2010. This will be his big screen debut.[15]
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