As the sect played a leading role in the education of Buddhism in Japan, many scholar monks who advocated new religious sect doctrines, such as the Yuzu Nenbutsu Sect, the Jodo Sect, the Jodo-Shin Sect, the Rinzai Sect, the Soto Sect and the Nichiren Sect, were turned out from the sect from the end of Heian period to Kamakura period.
長く日本の仏教教育の中心であったため、平安時代末期から鎌倉時代にかけて融通念仏宗・浄土宗・浄土真宗・臨済宗・曹洞宗・日蓮宗などの新しい宗旨を唱える学僧を多く輩出する事となる。