A thousand-year-old tradition has proved helpless in the face of a ten-year fashion. Taiwan's business practices have unintentionally "subverted Tibetans 'belief in the beauty of their own culture, completely undermining the dzi's value in Tibetan society," says Ted Cheng.
千年傳統不敵十年炒作，台灣的商業手法無意間「剝奪了藏人對自己民族美麗傳說的信仰，把天珠的價值糟蹋混淆了」，鄭明佑痛心地說。