The approximately 8,000 stone Buddha statues and stone pagodas within the temple precinct were originally placed as tombstones to mark the numerous unattended graves throughout Adashino and were collected at the temple in 1903.
境内の約8000体という夥しい数の石仏・石塔は、明治36年（1903年）頃に、化野に散在していた多くの無縁仏を掘り出して集めたものである。