Additionally, as a representative of priests and lay followers in the above organizations, Monshu, the Hongwan-ji-ha head priest, has been assigned and has been in charge of guarding the picture of Shinran, the founder of the sect, at Shinshu Hombyo, and reveres Buddha as a symbol of the sect, which believes the Shinshu sect teachings with other Doho (the present Monshu is the twenty-fifth Jonyo, Choken OTANI).
また、以上に属する僧侶・門徒を代表して、真宗本廟の宗祖親鸞聖人真影の御給仕並びに仏祖崇敬の任に当たり、同朋とともに真宗の教法を聞信する宗派の象徴的地位として門首が置かれている（現在の門首は、第25世の浄如〈大谷暢顕〉）。