Applebaum is a well-known New York designer, whose most famous work is the Holocaust Museum in Washington. It was after seeing the Holocaust Museum that Hsin Tao led his group on a visit to Applebaum, and the two men saw eye-to-eye from the start. When you walk into the Museum of World Religions you immediately feel that a master hand lies behind it, as indeed one does.
奧若夫是紐約著名的設計師，代表作有六百萬猶太人遭屠殺的浩劫博物館和表現新聞理念的新聞博物館，心道法師在看到浩劫博物館後就率弟子登門拜訪奧若夫，二人一談十分投契，今天的世界宗教博物館，一進入就覺得是大師手筆，果然所託得人。