佛陀在靈山會上說法，拈了一朵金色波羅花，大眾皆默然，唯獨首座弟子大迦葉破顏微笑，禪宗從此流傳。佛光山開山星雲大師說：「禪是幽默，是大自然、是我們的心、是我們的本來面目，禪是人間佛教的根本。」佛陀紀念館菩提廣場兩側外牆的「禪畫禪話」40幅浮雕，依星雲大師著的《星雲禪話》，由畫家高爾泰、蒲小雨伉儷所繪，將栩栩如生的人物、禪的精神，讓觀者領悟禪之精要。

At Vulture Peak, the Buddha picked up a flower, and the assembly was silent. Only Mahakasyapa broke into a broad quiet smile. This marked the beginning of the Chan school. Venerable Master Hsing Yun, founder of Fo Guang Shan, remarked, “Chan is humorous, expresses the law of nature, describes our mind, and reveals our true nature; Chan is the foundation of Humanistic Buddhism.”
The 40 reliefs, lying the outer walls of the Buddha Museum Bodhi Wisdom Concourse, were drafted by Gao Ertai and his wife Pu Xiaoyu based on Hsing Yun’s Chan Talks. The high reliefs feature lifelike characters that best express the spirit of Chan.

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