The term ja.da is used, at least in Buddhist tantric sources (esp. in the Kaalacakra cycle), to mean "inanimate" or, perhaps more accurately, "insentient." The exact opposite is aja.da. Matthew T. Kapstein Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies The University of Chicago Divinity School Directeur d'études Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris