Its dharma is a mixture of a faith for the guardian deity of seafaring, a faith for the purity of the land and others, so that it does not have a strong relationship with the dharma of the Soto sect.
同宗の教義は金毘羅信仰や浄土信仰などの混生であり、曹洞宗本来の教えとは関連が薄い。