The Shin-shu Honbyo (mausoleum) in which a picture of the sect's founder Shinran is placed, is an important place for all followers of the sect to confirm the teachings on which they depend, so that all followers of the sect have to revere and guard this, being combined equally with the doctrine.
宗祖親鸞聖人の真影を安置する真宗本廟は、宗門に属するすべての人の帰依処（依り所となる教えを確かめる大切な場所）であるから、宗門人はひとしく宗門と一体としてこれを崇敬護持する。