He entered into Onjo-ji Temple (Mii-dera Temple) in his childhood, learned Exoteric Buddhism as well as Esoteric Buddhism from Yokei and was instructed in the esoteric points of these two Buddhism's by Keiso.
幼いときに園城寺（三井寺）に入り、余慶から顕教・密教の2教を学び、慶祚からその奥義を伝授された。