Many modern people are fascinated by his high-mindedness symbolized by his pilgrimages to various provinces without staying in one place to depend on a temple, and his last moments, according to his biography, in which he burned his own writings, saying, 'this is the last moment for the Buddhist sutra which was learned in a single lifetime and there is nothing to remain but the voice of chanting Namu Amidabutsu (a single, sincere call upon the name of Amida).'
寺院に依存しない一所不住の諸国遊行や、入寂に際して「一代聖教皆尽きて南無阿弥陀仏に成り果てぬ」と自らの著作を燃やしたという伝記から、その高潔さに惹かれる現代人は多い。