Name	Jun Ji-hyun
Caption	At a promotional event in 2009
Birth name	Wang Ji-hyun
Birth date	October 30, 1981
Birth place	Seoul, South Korea
Other names	Gianna Jun
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1997–present

}} Jun Ji-hyun (; born October 30, 1981) also known as Gianna Jun, is a South Korean actress and model, famous for her roles in My Sassy Girl, Il Mare, and Windstruck.

Biography

Jun was born in Seoul, South Korea, and studied in the Department of Theater and Film at Dongguk University. Jun's childhood dream was to be an airhostess, but at the age of 16, a neighbour introduced her to modelling. She began her career as a fashion model for Echo Magazine in 1997.

After appearing in a number of TV sitcoms, her movie debut came in White Valentine (1999). This was followed by a role in Il Mare (2000), which proved to be a success. An American remake of Il Mare, The Lake House, was released 14 June 2006. However, her biggest breakthrough was in My Sassy Girl (2001), a romantic comedy which bought her international recognition, and won her a Best Actress award at the Daejong Film Festival in 2002. In 2004, she starred in the film Windstruck, a South Korean fantasy-romantic comedy which was directed by Kwak Jae-yong. The film was also another major success and was the 8th-highest grossing Korean film of 2004. In 2006, she was also in the movie Daisy. In 2008, she was also in the film A Man Who Was Superman.

Ji Hyun worked closely with CJ Entertainment, particularly with the distribution of Windstruck, The Uninvited, and A Man Who Was Superman.

In 2009, she made her English-language film debut when she starred as Saya in , which was filmed in China and Argentina in March 2007. It was during filming and before the March 2009 release that she adopted the Westernised name Gianna Jun. The film was Jun's first official action film and was a "drastic" change in her image from previous films.

As of February 2010, she began filming Snow Flower and the Secret Fan in China.

Filmography

Film

White Valentine (1999) (Hwaiteu ballentain - 화이트 발렌타인) - Jung-min

Il Mare (2000) (Siworae - 시월애) - Kim Eun-joo

My Sassy Girl (2001) (Yeopgijeogin geunyeo - 엽기적인 그녀) - The Main Girl (does not mention name)

The Uninvited (2003) (4(sa) Inyong siktak - 4인용 식탁) - Yeon

Windstruck (2004) (Nae yeojachingureul sogaehamnida - 내 여자친구를 소개합니다) - Yeo Kyung-jin

Daisy (2006) (Deiji - 데이지) - Hye Young

A Man Who Was Superman (2008) (Superman Ieotdeon Sanai - 슈퍼맨이었던 사나이) - Song Soo-jung

(2009) - Saya Otonashi

Drama

The Season of Puberty (1997)

Fascinate My Heart (1998)

Happy Together (1999)

References

External links

Jeon Ji-hyeon on HanCinema

Jeon Ji-hyeon Fanclubs movie site Asia zone

Interview with Gianna Jun

Category:South Korean film actors Category:South Korean television actors Category:South Korean female models Category:People from Seoul Category:Dongguk University alumni Category:1981 births Category:Living people

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Name	Linji
Caption	Japanese painting of Linji Yixuan (Jap. Rinzai Gigen).
Birth date	unknown
Birth place	China
Death date	866 CE
School	Ch'an
Title	Ch'an Master
Teacher	Huangbo Xiyun

Línjì Yìxuán (, ) (died 866 CE) was the founder of the Linji school of Chán Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China. Linji was born into a family named Xing (邢) in Caozhou (modern Heze in Shandong), which he left at a young age to study Buddhism in many places.

Linji was trained by the Chan master Huángbò Xīyùn (黃蘗希運) but, according to the Record of Linji, enlightened while discussing Huángbò's teaching during a conversation with the reclusive monk Dàyú (大愚). Linji then returned to Huángbò to continue his training after awakening. In 851 CE, Linji moved to the Linji temple in Hebei, where he took his name, which also became the name for the lineage of his form of Chán Buddhism. The Linji school ultimately became the most successful and widespread of the Five Houses of Chan.

Linji's teaching style

Linji's own teaching was greatly inspired by his master's, and was characterized by abrupt, harsh encounters with students, aiming to bring about the moment of enlightenment.

Shouting and hitting

His methods included shouting and striking, most often using the fly-whisk that was considered a symbol of a Chán master's authority:

The Master [Linji] saw a monk coming and held his fly whisk straight up. The monk made a low bow, whereupon the Master struck him a blow. The Master saw another monk coming and again held his fly whisk straight up. The monk paid no attention, whereupon the Master struck him a blow as well.

Discourses

Hebei, China]] Linji also taught with lectures and sermons, which were collected by his students into the Línjì-lù (臨済錄; Japanese: Rinzai-roku), the Record of Linji, which also contains stories of his interactions with teachers, contemporaries, and students. His lectures were a mixture of the conventional and the iconoclastic. He is particularly famous for encouraging his students to free themselves from the influence of masters and doctrinal concepts, in order to be able to better discover their own Buddha-nature.

Famed examples of Linji's iconoclasm include the following:

Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go.

Those who have fulfilled the ten stages of bodhisattva practice are no better than hired field hands; those who have attained the enlightenment of the fifty-first and fifty-second stages are prisoners shackled and bound; arhats and pratyekabuddhas are so much filth in the latrine; bodhi and nirvana are hitching posts for donkeys.

Linji's lineage in Japan

When Chinese Chan was brought to Japan it was called Zen. The Japanese Zen sect known as the Rinzai school is a branch of the lineage Linji founded. The smaller Japanese Obaku school came to Japan in the 17th century as a separate Linji lineage and existed in Japan for many years as a culturally Ming Dynasty Chinese Zen within Japan. Later the Obaku school semi-merged into the Rinzai lineage after Hakuin's revival of Rinzai in the 18th century. Today the Rinzai and Obaku schools are closely related. The now-defunct Japanese Fuke school also had close ties to the Rinzai school and claimed affiliation with the Linji lineage.

See also

Buddhism in China

List of Rinzai Buddhists

Notes

References

External links

Repository of translations of Linji

The Zen Teaching of Rinzai (a.k.a. The Record of Rinzai) PDF Text

Taisho Tripitaka Vol. 47, No. 1985 The Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association online Chinese character text of The Record of Linji (臨濟録 Linji Lu)

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Name	Keiko Kitagawa
Caption	Keiko Kitagawa in an interview at Stardust Promotion Inc
Birth date	August 22, 1986
Birth place	Kobe, Japan
Years active	2003-present
Website	http://official.stardust.co.jp/keiko/

is a Japanese actress and former model. She was an exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from late 2003 to mid 2006, and left modeling when she left the magazine. Her first acting role was Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon live action show Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003-4), and after her role in the film Mamiya Kyōdai, she left modeling to concentrate on acting. She has appeared in several films, including (2006) and Handsome Suit (2008), and has played leading roles in the TV Dramas Mop Girl (2007), Homeroom on the Beachside (2008), and Buzzer Beat (2009).

Life

Kitagawa was born on August 22, 1986 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and has a younger brother. She initially concentrated on films, including the leading roles in Cherry Pie and Dear Friends. In late 2007, she had her first leading role in a TV drama, in the late-night drama Mop Girl. In 2008, she was given the role of the heroine in Homeroom on the Beachside, Fuji Television's Monday 9pm drama for the summer season. As this is the headline drama slot for a major network, it represented a major step forward for her career.

She moved to Tokyo when she started working as an actress and model, and has lived there since. She traveled to California for the filming of , and returned there to study English for a couple of months early in 2006. ("Kii-tan" was her nickname at elementary school. She also likes swimming, particularly backstroke. She has a pet (male) cat, called Jill.

She has appeared in the films Mizu ni Sumu Hana (2006), Mamiya Kyōdai (2006), (2006), Cherry Pie (lead role) (2006), Dear Friends (lead role) (2007), Sono Toki ha Kare ni Yoroshiku (2007), Southbound (2007), Heat Island (2007), Handsome Suit (2008), Orion in Midsummer (2009), I'll Pay (2009), After the Flowers (lead role) (2010), and Matataki (lead role) (2010), and will appear in Elevator to the Scaffold (2010).

She appeared in the TV dramas Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003-4), Mop Girl (lead role) (2007), Homeroom on the Beachside (2008), Buzzer Beat (2009),\ |- |Elevator to the Scaffold | |- |Matataki |lead role |- |Paradise Kiss |Yukari Hayasaka (lead role) |}

Tokusatsu drama

Renzoku drama

Tanpatsu drama

Radio

2006 : Tanabata Nananenkai - As Naomi Setsuraku/Midori Fujikura

DVD

2004/2005 : Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Live Action vol. 1 to 12.

2004 : Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Kirari Super Live

2004 : Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Special Act

2005 : Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Act Zero

2006 : Mizu ni Sumu Hana

2006 : Mamiya Kyōdai

2006 : The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

2007 : Cherry Pie

2007 : Dear Friends

2008 : Sono Toki ha Kare ni Yoroshiku

2008 : Southbound

2008 : Heat Island

2009 : Handsome Suit

2010 : Orion in Midsummer

2010 : Buzzer Beat

Books

2006 : STYLISH STREET BOOK "I've been to Hollywood!"

2007 : Kitagawa Keiko Shashinshū Dear Friends

2008 : Actress Make Up

2010 : Actress Make Up II

2008-9 : Palitte (Glico)

2008 : Capsela (Suntory)

2008 : Breo (Glico)

2008 : Kanaflex (Kanaflex Corporation)

2008 : Okinawa 2008 (All Nippon Airways)

2009 : Sala (Kanebo Cosmetics)

2010 : SEED

2010 : Sony α (Sony)

2010 : Sony Cyber-shot (Sony)

Magazine column

2007 : Keytan Hakusho (Weekly The Television)

CD

2004 : Sakura Fubuki ("Cherry Blossom Storm")/Hoshi Furu Yoake ("Stars Fall at Dawn") (as Rei Hino)

Awards

2008 : 55th The Television Drama Academy Awards: Special Award

References

External links

Official Website

Official Blog

Aikurushii Keiko

English translation of KEIKO'S BLOG

Itsumo: Keiko Kitagawa

Marsrai.net - Fans Club in Chinese

Category:1986 births Category:Japanese actors Category:Living people Category:People from Kobe