Then, in 796, led by a divine revelation in his dream, he visited Mt. Kurama and found that a Bishamon-ten-zo (statue of Vaisravana) was enshrined there.
延暦15年(796年)、霊夢の託宣により鞍馬山に導かれ、同地に毘沙門天像が祀られているのを発見。