Bazi MCP vs Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools
A side-by-side look at the Bazi MCP and Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Bazi MCP for spirituality & esoterica work as a local process; choose Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools for spirituality & esoterica as a local process. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
Choose Bazi MCP when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Spirituality & Esoterica domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- Its auth model fits you: No auth required.
- You want tools like
getBaziDetail, getSolarTimes, getChineseCalendar.
Choose Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Spirituality & Esoterica domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- You want tools like
search_corpus, read_passage, get_parallels.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Spirituality & Esoterica | Spirituality & Esoterica |
| Quality signal | 64/100 · Good | 64/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | No auth required | Not declared |
| Pricing | Free | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 436 | 351 |
| Directory activity | 4 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 3 | 8 |
| Full listing | View Bazi MCP | View Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools |
Tools & capabilities
Bazi MCP tools 3
getBaziDetail根据时间（公历或农历）、性别来获取八字信息。solarDatetime和lunarDatetime必须传且只传其中一个。getSolarTimes根据八字获取公历时间列表。返回的时间格式为：YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss。例如时间1998年7月31日下午2点整表示为：1998-07-31 14:00:00getChineseCalendar获取指定公历时间（默认今天）的黄历信息。
Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools tools 8
search_corpusSemantic 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_passageRead 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_parallelsCross-canon parallel passages aligned to a fascicle. fojin's alignment moat: given a Chinese fascicle, returns the aligned Pali/Tibetan/Sanskrit parallels (each with its own `urn`) so you can compare how a passage is rendered across traditions.lookup_dictionaryLook up a Buddhist term across fojin's dictionaries (748K+ entries).lookup_entitySearch fojin's knowledge graph for entities — people, places, works, doctrinal terms — matching `query`.resolve_urnResolve 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_quoteVerify 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 when it wasn't. `cite` optionally narrows the search — a CBETA id ("T0374") or fojin URN ("fojin:cbeta/T0374.13") — and `cite_matched` reports honestly whether the quote is where you claimed (a hit in a different fascicle does NOT confirm your citation). Quote must be ≥4 CJK chars after normalisation; Classical Chinese only. Short quotes are answered but say less: a four-character phrase recurs across the canon, so read `cite_matched` rather than `verbatim`, and check `matches_capped` before treating the list as complete. Each match carries an absolute `reader_url` — cite that, not a reconstructed third-party link.commentariesWhat 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 exposes for the Chinese canon: CBETA marks up almost none of it, and the alignment behind this was derived text by text. Two things to read carefully rather than skim. `total` is how many commentators the passage actually has — `truncated` says the list you got is a sample. And coverage is partial: roughly half of what a commentator wrote is not aligned, so an absent commentator means "not in the data", never "he said nothing". When nothing matches, `available_sutras` tells you which sūtras have data at all — do not read a miss as silence from the tradition.
Ready-to-paste client configs
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
Bazi MCP
{
"mcpServers": {
"cantian-ai-bazi-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"bazi-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools
{
"mcpServers": {
"fojin-buddhist-canon-tools": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"fojin-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Bazi MCP is categorized under Spirituality & Esoterica and uses a local stdio subprocess. Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools belongs to Spirituality & Esoterica and uses a local stdio subprocess. Pick Bazi MCP for spirituality & esoterica work and Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools for spirituality & esoterica.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client.
Bazi MCP is listed as free. Auth: no auth required. Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add cantian-ai-bazi-mcp and fojin-buddhist-canon-tools as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Bazi MCP has a quality signal of 64/100 (Good) with 4 views, 0 installs and 436 GitHub stars. Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools has 64/100 (Good) with 1 views, 0 installs and 351 GitHub stars.