It saw as the main image Kannon Bodhisattva, Kannon Bosatsu, who is the Nyorai with great compassion and mercy, and insisted upon relief in the present world by the extreme power of Kannon Bosatsu, which does not consider its own power or that of others (自力他力).
大慈大悲の事実上の如来である観音菩薩を本尊として、自力他力を超えた観音妙力による現世救済を主張した。