Li Feng-mo, director of Chengchi University's Chinese department and an expert on research into Taoism, however, feels that, "Although the followers of Buddhism and Taoism cannot be separated, Lu Tung-pin is basically a Taoist deity and certainly not worshipped in orthobox Buddhism.
政治大學中文系主任、道教研究專家李豐楙卻認為：「雖然參拜的信徒佛、道不分，但是呂洞賓基本上是道教的神仙，正統佛教並不奉祀。