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Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.fojin.ai. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http fojin-buddhist-canon-tools https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_corpus — Semantic search across fojin's Buddhist corpus (10K+ texts, 30+ langs). Returns the most relevant passages, each with a `urn`, title, snipperead_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 actuget_parallels — Cross-canon parallel passages aligned to a fascicle. fojin's alignment moat: given a Chinese fascicle, returns the aligned Pali/Tibetan/Sanslookup_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 routinecommentaries — What the historical commentators said about a passage of Buddhist scripture. Give a line of a sūtra and get back the classical commentaries Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.