Disclosed by the present application is a method for indicating beam failure recovery, comprising: when conditions for triggering beam failure recovery are met, a terminal device sending a media access control (MAC) control element (CE), the MAC CE indicating a beam index corresponding to a beam used by a network device to send a feedback message. Further disclosed by the present application are another method for indicating beam failure recovery, a terminal device, a network device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium.