Not until modern times a term called art therapy started to use. It is no exaggeration to say that the mind has been expressed through the art from the prehistoric age which painted the mural paintings in a cave. The art is a transparent instrument to show well a psychological characteristic and state and the art therapy is an attempt to help organization or reorganization of personality through a means of visual art. To make art therapy add depth and develop as a study fitting for our emotion, it will be a very meaningful research for us to pay attention to the wisdom of Orient and seek after a graft between western thoughts and Buddhism. Accordingly, the study was to pave the way to get reborn as a deeper study through the meeting between Hwaŏm Ideas and an art therapy. Ideas of Hwaŏm Sutra gives following a new view to meaning and symbol of art therapy and the attitude of therapists.
First, the spiritualistic idealism of Hwaŏm emphasizes on the meaning of art therapy that can read client\'s mind that was projected on art works and lead to treat them.
Second, If you apply various symbols and enrich meanings of Hwaŏm Idealism and Hwaŏm Sutra to the art therapy, the art therapy will be a more positive and wider study.
Third, we can learn the attitude of therapist in the idea of Bodhisattva, Vows, Ten Paramitas of Hwaŏm.
Key Words : Art Therapy, Hwaŏm Idealism, symbol, the spiritualistic idealism of Hwaŏm, the idea of Bodhisattva, the idea of Vows, Ten Paramitas of Hwaŏm.