After the death of Kuya, a monk from Mt. Hiei named Chusin renovated the temple as a Tendai branch temple and renamed it Rokuharamitsu-ji Temple in the year 977.
空也の死後、977年に比叡山の僧・中信(僧)が中興して天台別院とし、六波羅蜜寺と改称した。