A number of intelligent monks and scholars were attracted by Ingen's high virtue and the new Zen Buddhism of Ming to gather around Kofuku-ji Temple where Ingen first lived, and the temple is said to have been very active and was flocked to by several thousand monks and believers.
隠元が入った興福寺には、明禅の新風と隠元の高徳を慕う具眼の僧や学者たちが雲集し、僧俗数千とも謂われる活況を呈した。