prajñā

Sanskrit: prajñā
Tibetan: ཤེས་རབ་
Tibetan (Wylie): shes rab
Tibetan (phonetics): shérab
English term: Faculty of wisdom
Alternative: Discriminating wisdom
English definition: A mental factor that is classified as one of the five object-ascertaining factors in Asanga’s classification and as one of the ten general mind bases in Vasubandhu’s classification. Wisdom or understanding is the discernment of the qualities of the object to eliminate misunderstanding.
The translation of the term into English and other target languages is quite broad and dependent on context may encompass terms as wisdom, intelligience, insight, discriminating awareness, discriminating wisdom, wisdom of discriminating awareness, and so on.
Spanish: Sabiduría