Subsequently, the school developed for the purpose of promoting education and rearing priests of the Jodo Sect as a high educational institution, and was renamed several times for mergers and independence in the reformation of education; in 1912, based on the Professional School Act, it was re-established after the establishment of Koto Gakuin.
その後、教学の振興と僧侶の育成を担う浄土宗の高等教育機関として発展を遂げ、学制の改革による統合・独立によって何度か校名を変更し、1912年の専門学校令による高等学院の設置を以て創立としている。