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fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools
URN-cited Buddhist canon search and lookup
3278 ms
answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 8
- Answered
- 3 of the last 3 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
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… |
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… |
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`. |
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. |
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. |
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). |
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… |
In its maker's words
Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.
- Website
- fojin.app
- Source
- github.com/xr843/fojin
- Publisher
- fojin.app
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
app.fojin/fojin-mcp - Version
- 0.4.0, updated 10 Aug 2026
- Kinds of work
- Search and research, Writing and translation, Documents and files
The domain it lives on
- fojin.ai
- registered 17 Mar 2026 (8 months ago), at Cloudflare, Inc, its home page is a working site
- fojin.app
- its name does not resolve now
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
Every call we made
| When | What happened | Time |
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| Answered | 3278 ms | |
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| Answered | 1407 ms |
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