詩與禪的關系,是文學史的一大難題。本文首先簡要考察了意境論形成的歷史過程,意在說明它是華夏文化獨創的審美范疇,是外來文化篡改不了的;又根據南宗《壇經》,揭示了禪境無相、無情和它的不以審美為目的的特征,突出了禪境與意境的根本區別;并依此廓清文學史上的種種誤解和誤導,并對楊矗諸君的非難與誤讀,作適當辯解。而提倡尊重歷史和講究學理的建樹與批評。

The nexus between poetry and Chan is a hard issue in literary history.The paper outlines the formation of the theory of yijing,the ideo-mood-imagery,or the poetically evoked realm so as to tell that yijing is an original Chinese aesthetic category and it cannot be distorted by alien culture.The article,drawing on Sutra Spoken of Southern Buddhism,proceeds to show that chanjing,or the zen-induced realm,is characterized by the absence of images and emotions and aesthetic purposes,thus highlighting the basic difference of Yijing and Chanjing.The above argumentation aims to clarify various kinds of misunderstandings about this and respond to Yang Chu’s critical views and misreading.