The millennium deadline Cheng Chin-yu, the director of the Ling Jiou Mountain Association, who followed Dharma Master Hsin Tao for many years before formally taking vows in 1993, recalls hearing Hsin Tao say that he hoped to finish the museum project before the coming of the new century, to encourage understanding and tolerance among religions before an inter-faith war made it too late to act.
世紀末大限跟隨心道法師多年，民國八十二年正式受俗家弟子戒的靈鷲山護法會會長鄭金裕回憶，當時聽師父說，要在二十一世紀來臨前完成這個工程，促進各宗教界的瞭解與包容，因為日後會有宗教戰爭，再晚怕會來不及了。