Ethno-musicologist Lin Ku-fang explains that in Buddhism, music is essentially "a means of seeing through suffering and impermanence, and expressing compassion for all sentient beings."
佛教的音樂本質，「主要在於一種對苦空無常的諦觀，對於一切有情的悲憫」，民族音樂學者林谷芳指出。