Chu observes that if you are purely using time of establishment as a yardstick, then even such eminently mainstream groups as Master Cheng Yen's Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu-Chi Association and Master Hsintao's Wusheng Taochang on Lingchiu Shan would have to be grouped among them.
瞿海源表示，如果單純以成立時間的長短為標準，那不管是證嚴法師的慈濟功德會，或是心道法師的靈鷲山無生道場，都應該算是新興宗教。