Believers were thus allowed to make offerings of music to aid their relief from suffering. Music became one of Buddhism's ten official forms of offering, and one of the five types of activity prescribed for promoting salvation.
為了使眾生出世離苦，所以也接受信眾以音樂來供養佛陀或僧侶，音樂便成了佛教的十大供養之一，也是佛教弘法引渡眾生的五大專業法門之一。