修行者在接受佛教戒律後，以香燃燒身體之某部份，以供養諸佛菩薩，而於身上留下之燃燒痕跡稱為戒疤，同時正式成為比丘尼。攝者關照的是受戒者的心理狀態，那熾熱的燃香是遁入空門決心的試煉，也正式宣告受戒者脫離塵俗和煩惱業障。

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The practitioners would use the incense to burn some parts of their bodies after accepting Buddhist precepts, as an offering to the Buddha and bodhisattvas. The scars left on their bodies after burning are called ordination scars, and they become nuns and monks after going through this burning ordination. The mental state of the ones who accepted the ordination scar burning precepts is what the photographer concerned about. The red-hot incense is a testament to their determination to be initiated into monkhood or nunhood, and it is the official declaration for them to depart from the common world, and its affliction and karma.