fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

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How to call it

Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fojin-buddhist-canon-tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

8 tools

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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