Shikpo Lingpa Shikpo Lingpa is one of three names given to the Terton Chogyur Lingpa by Guru Padmasambhava. The three names refer to Chogyur Lingpa's activities connected with the threefold system of Ground, Path and Fruit. As such, Shikpo Lingpa is related to his fruition activities. Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche explains: "As the fruition, his name is Shikpo Lingpa. Shik means dissolve, destroyed and Shikpo means the one for whom everything--all the ordinary concepts of this mundane world--has dissolved, fallen away, collapsed; not only for himself but for anyone who becomes connected with his terma teachings and applies them. Such individuals will attain the same state of true and complete enlightenment, known as 'the collapse of confusion.' In short, because of the basis of the eminence as the ground, connecting with the path of great bliss, all the concepts of this world, of delusion, fall apart and are totally obliterated." Shikpo Lingpa's activities were characterized by his dzogchen teachings, and therefore it is understandable that he is considered one of the great five Terton Kings of the "Indeterminate Direction."

 

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