At a symposium on Buddhist music held earlier this year at Fokuangshan, a center for Buddhist studies and worship, several Buddhist academics voiced concern about the popularization and commercialization of the form, and its loss of sacramental character. As they pointed out: take away the title and the chanting, and you're left with pure pop.
在今年年初由佛光山舉辦的佛教音樂研討會上，許多學者擔心這樣庸俗及商業化的佛教音樂，已將佛教音樂的神聖性破壞無遺，抽去標題或佛號，在音樂表現上根本就是流行音樂。