According to the documents remaining in the temple, Zenjo-ji Temple in the medieval period often disputed with its neighbors over village borders, especially, a dispute about the mountain border with Sotsuka-no-sho Manor (present Oishisotsuka-cho, Otsu City) of the estate of the Kujo family (Saisho kongo in ryo), was well known for disputing endlessly from the medieval period to the end of the Edo period.
寺に残る文書によると、中世の禅定寺は近隣との境争論をたびたび起こしており、中でも九条家領（最勝金剛院領）の曽束荘（そつかのしょう、現大津市大石曽束町）との山堺争論は中世から近世末期まで延々と争われたことで著名である。