Transcending the world of illusion To people who lack religious experience, these many-layered heavens may seem dubious or even absurd, but for believers, "Heaven really does exist." Ethnomusicologist Lin Ku-fang, who also teaches courses in Buddhist studies, says that humans construct heaven on the basis of their own sensory awareness, projecting onto it the spatiality of the human world. For the faithful, this spatiality has two meanings.
對缺乏宗教經驗者，這層層疊疊的天界看來可能匪夷所思、滑稽可疑，但對信徒，「天堂如實的存在」，教授佛學課程的民族音樂學者林谷芳說，人類以自己的感知層次建構天堂，把人間的空間性投射在天空裡，這個空間對信徒具有兩個意義。