Yang was delighted when she first came across a passage in a Buddhist prayer, "I hope that in the next life, when I attain enlightenment, my body will be like glass, clear inside and out." Upon reading it, she started to use glass to make Buddhas.
在她初翻到佛經中「願我來世，得菩提時；身如琉璃，內外清澈」很是喜悅，便開始試用琉璃製作佛像。