What makes Shinshu greatly different from other Buddhist sects is that monks have no commandments and are allowed to eat meat and to get married (Nikujiki-Saitai). (Shinshu was the only sect that allowed monks to get married until the Meiji period.)
他の仏教宗派に対する真宗の最大の違いは、僧侶に肉食妻帯が許される、無戒であるという点にある（明治まで、妻帯の許される仏教宗派は真宗のみであった）。