All articles starting with J

Jiva Goswami

Jiva Goswami (जीव गोस्वामी) was a Gaudiya Vaishnava theologian of Vrindavan, nephew of Rupa and Sanatana Goswami, whose Sat Sandarbhas made him the leading doctrinal authority of his school.

Jivajirao Scindia

Jivajirao Scindia (जीवाजीराव शिंदे) was the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior, reigning from 1925 until the state merged into India, and then Rajpramukh of Madhya Bharat from 1948 to 1956.

Jīvaka

Jīvaka, also known as Jivaka Komarabhacca, was a physician of Magadha in northern India, court physician to King Bimbisāra and the Buddha's personal doctor, later honored as King of Physicians.

Jivandhara Charite

Jivandhara Charite (Jīvandharacarite) is a Kannada Jain narrative poem by the poet Bhāskara, completed at Penugonde in 1424, retelling the life of Prince Jivandhara in 1000 verses across 18 chapters.

Jivani

Jivani (Ջիվանի), born Serob Stepani Levonyan (1846–1909), was an Armenian ashugh, a folk singer-poet, and the leading representative of the national school of Armenian ashugh song.

Jivantyadi ghrta (Jīvantyādi ghṛta, जीवन्त्यादि घृत), AFI000433, is an Ayurvedic medicated ghee with jivanti (Leptadenia reticulata), milk, and triphala, used in netra tarpana and nasya for eye disorders such as Timira, astigmatism, and dry eye.

JIVE (fuel cell bus project)

JIVE, the Joint Initiative for hydrogen Vehicles across Europe, was an EU-funded program that deployed around 290 hydrogen fuel cell buses and refuelling infrastructure at 16 European sites.

Jive Records

Jive Records, also JIVE, is a record label founded in 1981 by Clive Calder under Zomba, dominant in hip hop then teen pop (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync), absorbed into RCA in 2011 and relaunched by RCA in February 2026.

Jivya Soma Mashe

Jivya Soma Mashe (1934–2018) was an Indian painter of the Warli Adivasi community of Maharashtra who was the first man to take up Warli painting.

Jiwaka

Jiwaka is a province in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea, created 17 May 2012 from Jimi, Waghi, and Kambia areas of Western Highlands Province; capital Banz or Kurumul, population 455,208 (2024), agriculture-based economy.

Jiwanar Baatot

Jiwanar Baatot (জীৱনৰ বাটত) is a 1945 Assamese novel by Birinchi Kumar Barua, published under the pen name Bina Baruah and called a milestone of the Assamese novel.

Jiwoong Park

Jiwoong Park is a condensed-matter physicist and James Franck Professor at the University of Chicago, known for growing and imaging atomically thin two-dimensional materials like graphene.

Jixi

Jixi (鸡西) is a prefecture-level coal city in southeastern Heilongjiang, China, bordering Russia; one of the province's four coal cities and China's 'Graphite Capital', with 1.61 million residents and a graphite-based transition economy.

Jixi hydroelectric plant

Jixi hydroelectric plant, formally the Anhui Jixi Pumped Storage Power Station (安徽绩溪抽水蓄能电站), is a 1,800 MW pumped-storage station in Jixi County, Anhui Province, China, fully operational since 2021.

Jixia Academy

The Jixia Academy (稷下学宫), or Jixia learning, was a state-sponsored assembly of scholars at the Qi capital Linzi, traditionally founded around 374 BC and lasting about 150 years until Qin conquered Qi in 221 BC.

Jixia senior grand master titles and stipends

The Jixia senior grand master titles and stipends (稷下上大夫号) were the ranks and state salaries Qi granted to scholars at the Jixia Academy in the Warring States period.

Jixian Institute

The Jixian Institute (集贤院), a Tang dynasty academy of scholars in Chang'an, compiled the catalog of the imperial library and advised the emperor in the 720s.

Jixiao Xinshu

Jixiao Xinshu (紀效新書, New Treatise on Military Efficiency) is a Ming military manual by general Qi Jiguang, the first Chinese treatise devoted mainly to training.

Jixun Foo

Jixun Foo is a Singaporean venture capitalist and senior managing partner at Granite Asia, known for early investments in Baidu, Grab, and Xpeng Motors and for the Youku-Tudou merger.

Jiya Shankar

Jiya Shankar, Indian actress born 1995 in Mumbai; known for Meri Hanikarak Biwi, Kaatelal & Sons, the Marathi hit Ved, and as a Bigg Boss OTT 2 contestant; Tamil lead debut Kadhal Reset Repeat (2026).

Jiyang Shale Oil Field

The Jiyang Shale Oil Field is a continental shale oil field in the Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Shandong, China, developed by Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield.

Jiyoye

Jiyoye (Jijoye, P-2003, P3J) is a human EBV-positive Burkitt lymphoma B-cell line established in 1965, accession CVCL_1317, ATCC CCL-87, parent of P3HR-1, TP53-mutant, doubling time 30-60 hours.

Jiyuan

Jiyuan (济源市), a province-administered city in northwestern Henan, China, named for the source of the Ji River; county founded 596 AD, city status 1988, provincial administration 1997, about 720,000 people.

Jiyuan Oil Field

The Jiyuan Oil Field (姬塬油田) is a large one-billion-tonnage oil field in the central Ordos Basin of north-central China, operated by PetroChina's Changqing Oilfield Company.

Jiyun

Jiyun (集韻, "Collected Rhymes") is a ten-volume Chinese rime dictionary compiled under the Northern Song dynasty and completed in 1039, traditionally attributed to Ding Du and colleagues.

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Jiyūtō

Jiyūtō (自由党, Liberal Party) was Japan's first nationwide political party, founded by Itagaki Taisuke in 1881 to lead the Freedom and People's Rights Movement; it dissolved in 1884.

Jizamurai

Jizamurai (地侍, "samurai of the soil") were landowning village warriors of late medieval Japan, counted as peasants for tax purposes yet bearing arms and surnames.