禅,为梵语“禅那”音译而来,其本意是指一种修行的思维状态,或理解为静虑、定等。唐末、五代时期,禅宗充分吸收了天台宗、三论宗、华严宗等各宗重要理论,演变为中国特色的佛教派别。其间,佛教绘画中纯粹的宗教性也由于加入了大量的儒者士大夫及下层民众的大众文化信息,从而产生了与禅宗的精神相契合的绘画作品,或可称之为禅画。禅画在早期并无此名称。与道教等宗教绘画一样,大多为其教理教义相辅并佐 Zen, for the Sanskrit “Zen that” transliteration, the original meaning is a spiritual state of thinking, or interpreted as static, set and so on. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Zen fully absorbed various important theories such as Tiantai Sect, San Lun Zong and Huayan Zong and evolved into Buddhist sects with Chinese characteristics. In the meantime, the pure religion in Buddhist painting also resulted in the creation of paintings that fit the spirit of Zen, by adding a large amount of popular cultural information from Confucian scholars and the lower classes of people, or Zen painting. Zen painting in the early no such name. Like Taoist and other religious paintings, most of them are complemented by its doctrines