The events are mainly Buddhist memorial services where the practitioners, who went through purifying themselves (religiously) by abstaining from eating meat and are called rengyoshu (the eleven priests participate in Shuni-e held at Nigatsudo hall of Todaiji Temple), confess their sins by themselves and through their kudoku (pious act), pray to Eleven-faced Kannon (Goddess of Mercy) in Nigatsu-do Hall for the prosperity of Buddhism, the peaceful world, the affluent life for the national, huge harvest (of cereals) and so on.
二月堂の本尊十一面観音に、練行衆と呼ばれる精進潔斎した行者がみずからの過去の罪障を懺悔し、その功徳により興隆仏法、天下泰安、万民豊楽、五穀豊穣などを祈る法要行事が主体である。