However, after Shinran's death, many people taught doctrines one after another, which were quite different from the thoughts of the Jodo-shin sect 'Senju Nenbutsu' (believers had to only recite nenbutsu without doing any other exercises) which Honen had taught to Shinran.
親鸞の死後も、法然から親鸞へと伝えられた真宗の教え（専修念仏）とは、異なる教義を説く者が後を絶たなかった。