The priests who followed him such as Tao-chuo and Shan-dao as well as Genshin, Honen, and Shinran in Japan adopted Tan-luan's logic in their own theories because of its persuasiveness.
このため、続く道綽・善導、さらに日本の源信_(僧侶)・法然・親鸞はこの論書によって論を進めている。