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fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

app.fojin/fojin-mcp · v0.4.0

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

Connect

claude mcp add --transport http fojin-mcp https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fojin-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools as reported by the server

• 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 by language code (lzh=Classical Chinese, pi=Pali, sa=Sanskrit, bo=Tibetan, en=English).
• 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 memory.
• 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 rendered across traditions. A fascicle returns parallels for the *whole* juan — often hundreds. To narrow the
• 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 `verbatim` (bool), where it was found (`matches`, each with a resolvable `urn`), or the closest near-miss window whe
• 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 words, the work it comes from, a quality tier, and a resolvable citation. This is the layer no other tool expose

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