Kanzan's teaching of Zen was flourished greatly by Hakuin and has been passed on up to the present time while other branches of the Rinzai sect died out.
関山の禅は、後に系統に白隠が出て大いに繁栄し、他の臨済宗諸派が絶法したのに対し、その法灯を今日に伝えている。