By people belonging to the Buddhist academy, however, much criticism has been raised against his interpretation which judges that Nehan-gyo Sutra is inferior to Hoke-kyo Sutra, asserting that he twisted the argument too much in favor of Hoke-kyo Sutra from his standpoint regarding Hoke-kyo Sutra's superiority.
しかし法華優位の立場から涅槃経を劣ると判じるその解釈については、やや牽強付会（けんきょうふかい）であった、という指摘が仏教学において多く提示されている。