Abstract：The idea of the state (the realm reached by, and the mood of, a work of art) and that of taste (the sampling and the tasting of a work of art) are literary theories of marked native features, which have drawn ideologically from Buddhism in their formation and development. This article, firstly, combs out the evolutions of related terms and probes into the mutual influence and infiltration between researches of religious psychology and those of artistic psychology. Then, it points out the insights into the regular patterns of mankind's aesthetic psychology embodied in the ancient ideas of the state and the taste as well as their practical values in contemporary artistic activities.
