Sometime after returning, he built a Zen temple in Hoko-ji Temple (also called Asuka-dera Temple or Gango-ji Temple), lived there, and taught the Dharmalogy of the Hosso Study for the first time in Japan (according to "Nanji-den").
年時不明、法興寺（別名飛鳥寺・元興寺）の一隅に禅院を建立して住み、日本法相教学の初伝となった（南寺伝）。