Especially, Shoku, the founder of the Nishiyama school of the Jodo sect, wrote "the Commentary on Taima Mandala" in 1223, made more than a dozen copies of Taima Mandala and enshrined them in various countries, which contributed the spread of Taima Mandala.
中でも浄土宗西山派の祖・証空は、貞応2年（1223年）に『当麻曼荼羅註』を著し、当麻曼荼羅の写しを十数本制作し諸国に安置して、当麻曼荼羅の普及に貢献した。