In 1996, Loretta Yang first visited Dunhuang, and the Dunhuang Academy, moved by Loretta Yang's passion for Buddhist art, specially opened the Mogao Cave No. 3, allowing Loretta Yang to enter and observe.

This Yuan Dynasty Buddhist cave houses the only surviving mural of the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, which is an extremely famous image in Chinese Buddhist art. The solemn and magnificent statue is a rare sight in Chinese Buddhist art.

Loretta Yang, who had been copying Buddhist statues from various Chinese dynasties for nearly a decade, was deeply moved upon seeing the mural of the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara. However, she learned from the experts at the academy that this mural, painted on a sandstone wall, is facing the crisis of gradual disappearance due to the continuous seepage of salt and various atmospheric changes.

For Loretta Yang, this is not just the disappearance of the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed mural, but the vanishing of Buddhist art, and more importantly, the disappearance of the worldly reflection of compassion and wisdom. In this turbulent world, it represents an interruption in the transmission of historical and cultural heritage.

Loretta Yang thought of the miles-long crowds at the Vatican, people from all corners of the world, waiting for hours in line just to witness Michelangelo's Pietà. Loretta Yang believes that this is not only an aspiration for artists but also a reflection of the human heart's yearning for the great love and compassion found in religious art.

Loretta Yang made up her mind.

Since 1996, for nearly two decades, Loretta Yang has uninterruptedly and at any cost, used various materials to sculpt the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva from the Mogao Cave No. 3 in Dunhuang, not to create a single Buddha statue, but to pass on a legacy of compassion and wisdom.

The tallest statue of the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, standing at six meters tall, is enshrined in the Putuo Luojia Mountain Guanyin Hall of the Buddha Memorial Center in Taiwan. Adorned with glass beads and pendants, it has been revered by more than ten million devotees to date.

However, Loretta Yang always reminds all audiences in various ways that she is not an artist; the creation of the statues originates from the Yuan Dynasty's Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed mural in the Mogao Cave No. 3 in Dunhuang.

The activity of creating the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara statues has become a spiritual practice for Loretta Yang that transcends the constraints of the real world. Such creative activities often disregard worldly life and even challenge the limits of creation, including her own physical and physiological conditions. In order to complete the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara for the Buddha Memorial Center within a certain time limit, she barely slept for seven days.

Moved by the spiritual state mentioned in Buddhist scriptures, "with a body like lapis lazuli, clear and bright both inside and out," Loretta Yang has vowed to challenge the limits of height in casting glass Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara statues during her lifetime.

Since 2008, the completion of the one-meter-tall glass Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara statue has been recognized by the Corning Museum of Glass in the United States as one of the world's most exquisite and intricate crystal lost-wax casting artworks.

For nearly two decades since 1996, Loretta Yang has uninterruptedly and at any cost, used various materials to sculpt the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva from the Mogao Cave No. 3 in Dunhuang. Her aim is not to sculpt a single Buddha statue but to pass on a legacy of compassion and wisdom.

However, Loretta Yang immediately began planning for a two-meter glass Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara statue. For this two-meter glass work, Loretta Yang had to design and custom-order a kiln with an inner diameter of up to four meters, and the firing time alone took a year.

After four years of preparation, including customizing the kiln and sculpting the prototype, in 2012, the two-meter glass Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara was completed.

This two-meter-tall glass Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva is one of the largest and most intricate Buddha art pieces in the history of world glass art.

Yet, Loretta Yang is wholeheartedly thinking about an even larger and taller glass Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. It can be imagined for Loretta Yang; as long as her life continues, the creation of the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara will continue to challenge greater heights and difficulties, because for Loretta Yang herself, the cultivation of compassion and wisdom knows no bounds, and for this world, through the creation of Buddha statues, to evoke more compassion and wisdom towards life in everyone, knows no bounds.

The creation of the Thousand-Armed and Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva has become Loretta Yang's lifelong wish, but the true purpose in her heart should be to let boundless compassion pervade this uneasy world, becoming everyone's great wish.