So I feel very privileged as the architect of this building to begin this process. Other things will follow. So far the Buddhist art movement in Europe has been quite defensive. It has been using traditions from other regions which in themselves are inherently very beautiful, but very often have degenerated. P erfection doesn't exist in art.
All art is illusion, and architecture - that's an illusion too.
But in terms of what you're doing as an architect you must understand the illusoriness of it because you can make a room appear larger or smaller depending on the light and so on. In fact to make a big space read you have to constrain it. A huge building like St. Peter's in Rome, for example, looks quite small when you're in there, but it's only when you see someone against the base of the columns that you realise it's absolutely vast. And then you take some very small church which would go into the aisle of St. Peter's. It's seems like a very beautiful big space, but it's actually quite small.