shes rab

shes rab

A mind that sees the ultimate truth directly.

Also translated here as "wisdom." See glossary entry.

In specific contexts, it refers also to the female partner in sexual yoga.

In the context‌ of the transcendent perfections, wisdom is the sixth of the six transcendent perfections.
The translation of prajñā ({shes rab}) by "wisdom" here defers to the precedent established by Edward Conze in his writings. It has a certain poetic resonance which more accurate renderings—"discernment,", "discriminative awareness," or "intelligence"—unfortunately lack. It should be remembered that in Abhidharma, prajñā is classed as one of the five object-determining mental states (pañcaviṣayaniyata, {yul nges lnga}), alongside "will," "resolve," "mindfulness," and "meditative stability." Following Asaṅga's Abhidharmasamuccaya, Jamgon Kongtrul (TOK, Book 6, Pt. 2, p. 498), defines prajñā as "the discriminative awareness that analyzes specific and general characteristics." Therefore "wisdom" in this context is to be understood in the cognitive or analytical Germanic sense of witan or weis (Dayal 1932: 136) and not as an abstract "body of knowledge," or in any aloof and mysterious theosophical sense. Nor indeed is there any association with the Greek sophia.
Also translated here as "discriminative awareness."

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