A method in Esoteric Buddhism, which included strong characteristics of the benefit gained in this world and Onmyodo (the way of Yin and Yang, and occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements) also developed, as did the Jodo sect founded by Honen.
現世利益的色彩の強い、陰陽道の色彩を濃厚に含んだ密教修法や法然の説く浄土宗なども発達。