When Ingen was thirty-eight, Mitsun gave his position over to his disciple HIIN Tsuyo and left the temple, but Ingen stayed at Manpuku-ji Temple to inherit the dharma from Hiin at forty-five.
38歳の時、密雲は弟子の費隠通容に萬福寺を継席して退山したが、隠元はそのまま萬福寺に残り、45歳で費隠に嗣法した。