Ting Nai-chu, an actress who has studied the Esoteric Sect in some depth, points out that the lama dance cannot be performed by just anyone. Besides having mastered various preparatory disciplines, the dancers must have chanted to the gohonzon a sufficient number of times: around 700,000 to be exact.
對密宗涉獵頗廣的戲劇工作者丁乃竺指出，金剛舞不是人人能跳的，舞者除必須修足種種前行法的預備法，還需念滿足夠的本尊咒語。所謂的「足夠」，通常是七十萬遍。