However, the rise of the Tendai Hokke sect and Mikkyo was heretical for Tokuitsu himself and the Hosso sect of Buddhism which he belonged to and the traditional Buddhism system, thus it had to be exhaustively confuted.
しかしまた徳一にとっても、天台法華宗や密教の擡頭は、彼自身の属する法相宗にとっても、また従前の仏教体制秩序にとっても、異端なのであって、これを徹底的に論破しておく必要があった。