意境是中國美學的重要思想範疇，意境美學是中國美學的重要基本理論，意境論（境界論）美學具有渾然一體的藝術體驗論、象外之象的藝術形象論與自然天成的藝術真理論等三個環節。本文闡釋：中國意境美學以意與境的渾然一體的藝術體驗為根本，闡釋象外之象的虛實合成妙象的藝術形象，而以實現道法自然的渾然天成之境為藝術的實存真理的開顯，彰顯了「藝與道合」的形上美學。這樣的意境美學和德國當代哲學家海德格（Martin Heidegger）與嘉達瑪（Hans-Georg Gadamer）及其影響所開展出的詮釋學二者有其相通之處。本論文進一步論述海德格與嘉達瑪及其影響所開展出的詮釋學的美學思維，以之為參考，而開展山水畫美學和禪畫美學的體系論述。

Yih-jung is one of the most important categories of Chinese aesthetics. In this paper I tackle the Yih-jung Aesthetics of Chinese Painting and compare it with hermeneutical aesthetics. I expose the concept of "the image beyond the image" as a symbolic image, and illuminate three essential points of Ch'an-Painting and Chinese Landscape-Painting. After then I compare these essential points of Ch'an-Painting with the relevant themes of Heidegger's and Gadamer's Hermeneutics.