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fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

app.fojin/fojin-mcp

Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.

Uptime
100.0%
1 direct probes · 30d
Response
1113ms
last probe
Tools
8
callable
Resources
0
readable
Prompts
0
available
Primary URL
https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp

Tools · 8

search_corpus

Semantic search across fojin's Buddhist corpus (10K+ texts, 30+ langs). Returns the most relevant passages, each with a `urn`, title, snippet and similarity score. `lang` optionally filters b…

read_passage

Read the full content of one fascicle (卷) of a text, with its `urn`. Use the `text_id`/`juan_num` from a search_corpus hit. Returns the actual canonical text — quote from this, not from memor…

get_parallels

Cross-canon parallel passages aligned to a fascicle. fojin's alignment moat: given a Chinese fascicle, returns the aligned Pali/Tibetan/Sanskrit parallels so you can compare how a passage is …

lookup_dictionary

Look up a Buddhist term across fojin's dictionaries (748K+ entries).

lookup_entity

Search fojin's knowledge graph for entities — people, places, works, doctrinal terms — matching `query`.

resolve_urn

Resolve a fojin URN (e.g. fojin:cbeta/T0001.1) to a reader URL and confirm it exists in the corpus. Use to verify or dereference a citation.

verify_quote

Verify that a Buddhist-canon quote exists VERBATIM in the corpus. Call this before presenting any quoted scripture to a reader: LLMs routinely invent plausible-looking quotes. Returns `verbat…

commentaries

What the historical commentators said about a passage of Buddhist scripture. Give a line of a sūtra and get back the classical commentaries that gloss it — each with the commentator's own wor…

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fojin_—_buddhist_canon_tools": {
      "url": "https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}