Shingon-shu Buzan-ha

While gaining many followers in Kanto, historical circumstances led to only one branch temple existing in the Chūgoku and Kyushu regions due to the dispersal and consolidation of the Shingon sect.

According to temple records, in the first year of Shuchō (686), during the reign of Emperor Tenmu, Dokei erected a three-story pagoda on the western hill of Hatsuseyama.

In the fourth year of Jinki (727), it is said that the monk Tokudo enshrined a statue of Ekādaśamukha (Juichimen-kannon) on the eastern hill (the current location of the main hall) and founded the temple, but this is considered within the realm of tradition.

In the 16th year of Tensho (1588), followers of the reformed Shingon school, who were expelled from Negoro-ji due to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attack, settled in Hasedera.

Its largest chapters outside Japan are located in Hong Kong (under the name "Mantra School for Lay Buddhists") and Vietnam (under the name "Minh Nguyệt Cư Sĩ Lâm").