Eventually, in the late Heian period, with the spread of Senju Nenbutsu (the Single-Minded Recitation of the Nenbutsu) of Honen, Heian Buddhism ceased to be an aristocratic form of Buddhism and spread to the entire populace, whereupon it heralded the Kamakura New Buddhism (new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period).
やがて、平安末期に法然の専修念仏が広まるともはや貴族仏教ではなくなり、民衆全体への広がりを見せ、鎌倉新仏教のさきがけとなって行った。