After Hongan-ji Temple took control of Kaga in 1488, Kokyo-ji Temple of Rensei, along with Matsuoka-ji Temple of Renko, who was his older brother, and Honsen-ji Temple of Rengo, who was his younger brother and the successor of his older brother Renjo, came to be called 'Three Temples of Kaga' or 'Three Mountains of Kaga', and became the deputy governing institutions of Hongan-ji Temple in Kaga.
長享2年(1488年)の本願寺による加賀支配確立後には蓮誓の光教寺は兄蓮綱の松岡寺・弟で兄蓮乗の後継となった蓮悟の本泉寺と並んで「賀州三ヶ寺」または「加賀三山」と呼ばれて加賀における本願寺の代行統治機関となった。