《禪林寶訓》是宋代禪宗的書籍，它的問世至今已經有八百多年的歷史，是佛教最重要的經典之一。《禪林寶訓》是由大慧宗杲、竹庵士珪、沙門淨善三位禪師先後經過二次集文編輯完成的。目前我們所看到的《禪林寶訓》是沙門淨善重集本，總共收集四十二禪師二九一條語錄，包含雲門宗、臨濟宗黃龍派、楊岐派等禪師，內容包羅萬象，十分複雜，但經審慎而縝密的探究，不難發現全書所論及的，集中於禪僧的道德修養、禪法的修行及叢林制度的恢復。因此在宋代禪林乃至中國佛教思想發展史上都具有重要的意義和地位，受到後代禪林與學者的重視；明清之後，更被譽為「釋門之龜鑑」、「入道之寶筏」，至今更是僧伽教育的範本和僧眾日常實踐的楷模，也可說是禪僧修身養性的百科全書之一。
A Study of the Book of Chan Lin Bao Xun played an important role in the history of Chinese Buddhism. It’s thought of Fusion of Confucianism and Buddhism was not only accord with the subject-matter of the times but also profound and heartily. It had a great merit in the development of Buddhism. It preached the moral standards such as the discrimination between justice and interest, which are consistent with the Confucian ethics. So the thesis tries to expound this issue in the first place, then analyzes the thought of Zen detailly, and examines and estimates all of them at last.
