But there are cultural differences as well. For example, Westerners tend to interpret the light as Jesus or Mary, whereas Taiwanese tend to see Guanyin or another Buddhist figure. Sophia Hsieh, for example, saw and heard something straight out of a Buddhist sutra. Tung Yi-pu heard Buddhist chanting and saw ancient Indian and Nepalese totems.
然而，其中也有若干文化差異，比如西方人直覺認為「光體」是耶穌或聖母瑪麗亞，台灣人卻常看到觀世音菩薩來接引或佛教意象，例如趙翠慧的瀕死見聞就如同佛經中的「天衣天樂相迎」；董逸璞聽到的是梵唄聲，看到印度的古文明圖騰。