禅宗是中国佛教的八大宗派之一,始于菩提达摩,盛于六祖惠能,中晚唐之后成为汉传佛教的主流,也是最具中国特色的佛教宗派。继上个世纪80年代初李泽厚在《中国美学史》绪论中提到禅宗美学是中国美学的四大思潮之一后,张节末在 Zen is one of the eight major sects of Chinese Buddhism. It began with Bodhidharma, flourished in the sixth ancestors and became the mainstream of Han Buddhism in the late Middle and Late Tang dynasties. It is also the most Buddhist sect with Chinese characteristics. Following the introduction of zen aesthetics in the preface to the history of Chinese aesthetics by Li Ze-hou in the early 1980s as one of the four major trends of Chinese aesthetics,