《维摩诘经》与王维的佛教美学思想

王维深得《维摩诘经》要旨,以维摩诘为楷模。其诗深广地渗入《维摩诘经》的美学思想。王维诗境不智求,不象取,以禅心统摄世界。心性平等若虚空,笔墨蹊径,无复可寻。诗人悟得净智、净心、净土,万事万形,皆由心出,诗境便成为好净悉现之净土。语言既是造道之致,不复缚在文字,诗便进入无言真境。道悟诗悟,合而为一。

The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra and Wang Wei's Buddhist Aesthetic Ideology

In his life Wang Wei models himself on Vimalakirti Nirdesa and in his poetry the aesthetic thoughts of The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra permeate. A manifestation of this is that Wang Wei achieves his poetic effects neither by willful intellects nor definite images, on the contrary, the lively wisdom of Zen governs all his poetic world. Since the poet has reached his nature in the state of empty wholeness, we cannot follow the procedure of the creation of his poems. Wang Wei's poetry is a spreading of the Pure Land in which, with the barriers of language transcended, the revelation of the Buddhist truth and the inspiration of poetry becomes one.