In the following year, he travelled to Nara to study Exoteric Buddhism, Esoteric Buddhism and the Shinto Religion and thereafter he started to study Buddhist precepts at Nonaka-dera Temple (Habikino City) in Kawachi Province under the guidance of Shugen and was bestowed Gusokukai (taking the full precepts) in 1738.
翌年に奈良に遊学し、顕教、密教、神道と宗派を問わず学び、河内国の野中寺（羽曳野市）で秀厳の教えを受けて、戒律の研究を始め、1738年(元文3年)、具足戒を受けた。