The temple also deeply involved in Tozan-ha school of Shugendo (Japanese ascetic and shamanistic practice in mountainous sites), playing an important role as one of the Tozan-sanjuroku-daisendatsushu (Tozan school's thirty-six great leaders), and this became one of the major reasons why the temple had to be damaged fatally at the beginning of the Meiji period, when Shugendo was forbidden by the Ordinance Distinguishing Shinto and Buddhism, which contributed the anti-Buddhist movement in the next phase.
また、当寺は修験道当山派との関わりも深く、当山三十六正大先達衆を構成する一寺として、重要な役割を果たしており、これは修験道が明治の神仏分離令で禁止された結果、続く廃仏毀釈で当寺が致命的な打撃を被る一因となった。