Some sects, in particular the Ritsu sect and its off-shoot the Shingon Ritsu sect, were even more reform-minded than the new sects, for example, not only did they participate in the salvation of the common people through social work but also rejected the state-proscribed kaidan and began their own original 'jukai' (handing down the precepts) ceremonies.
特に律宗やそこから派生した真言律宗などでは社会事業などに乗り出しながら民衆の救済に加わるだけではなく、自ら国家の指定した戒壇を拒否して独自の授戒儀式を開始するなど、新しい宗派よりも革新的な動きすら見せた。