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Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

Searches Buddhist texts, passages, parallels, and dictionaries through cited, read-only MCP tools.

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Install Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fojin-buddhist-canon-tools": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "fojin-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

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Overview

fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools MCP server exposes FoJin’s Buddhist text corpus to MCP-compatible AI assistants. Its eight read-only tools support search, passage retrieval, cross-canon parallels, and dictionary lookups, with stable URN citations for retrieved material. Use the hosted endpoint at mcp.fojin.ai without an API key, or run the published package locally against your own FoJin instance. It fits research and question-answering workflows that need source-linked Buddhist texts rather than uncited responses.

Use cases

  • Search Buddhist scriptures from an AI assistant
  • Retrieve passages with stable URN citations
  • Compare related passages across Buddhist canons
  • Look up Buddhist terms in indexed dictionaries

Key features

  • Eight read-only MCP tools
  • Buddhist canon search
  • URN-addressable passage retrieval
  • Cross-canon parallel lookup
  • Dictionary search
  • Hosted HTTP and local stdio access

Tools8

What Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools lets your agent do. Expand a tool for its parameters.

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What it can do

From the 8 tools this server returned when we ran it.

Makes network requests · 1Read-only tools · 8
Network at startup2 connections
Files written at startup10

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Last commit1d agoMost recent push to the default branch.
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Tools exposed8Callable tools this server registers over MCP.
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How Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools works

What fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools does

fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools provides an MCP interface to FoJin, a searchable aggregation of Buddhist texts and reference data.

The server exposes eight read-only tools. Retrieved content is addressable through FoJin URNs, allowing an assistant or developer to retain a stable reference to the source passage. The corpus described by the project includes material from 612 sources, more than 10,500 texts, and content in languages including Classical Chinese, Pali, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. The MCP listing does not describe write operations.

How it works

An MCP client sends requests to the server using the Model Context Protocol. The tools query FoJin’s indexed corpus and return text or reference data that the assistant can use in its response. Search and passage retrieval support finding relevant material; cross-canon tools help compare related passages; dictionary tools provide terminology lookup.

The hosted service is available at https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp and does not require installation or an API key. The project also publishes the fojin-mcp package for local stdio use. A local process can be started with uvx fojin-mcp or installed with pip, then configured to work with a local FoJin deployment.

Setup and configuration

For the hosted option, add the MCP endpoint to a compatible client. The README gives this Claude command:

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

For local use, run:

bash
uvx fojin-mcp

The repository also documents running the broader FoJin platform with Docker, importing source data, and generating embeddings. Those steps apply when operating a complete local FoJin instance, not when using the hosted MCP endpoint.

Tools and capabilities

The server’s documented capability groups are:

  • Searching the Buddhist canon
  • Retrieving cited passages
  • Finding cross-canon parallels
  • Looking up dictionary entries
  • Addressing sources through stable FoJin URNs
  • Returning read-only results for use by MCP clients

fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools is a suitable fit when an agent needs to locate Buddhist source passages or compare traditions. It is less suited to workflows that require modifying corpus data or using MCP tools to write annotations, collections, or other records.

Limitations and notes

The server is read-only, so the documented interface does not provide mutation tools. The repository’s corpus is assembled from external public sources, and the local platform setup starts with schema and source metadata rather than imported text; content import is required for a fully populated self-hosted deployment. The hosted endpoint avoids that local data-loading process.

The project describes citations as URN-linked and verifiable, but an MCP client still determines how retrieved passages are presented in its final answer. For reproducible research, preserve the returned citation and inspect the referenced source passage rather than relying only on a generated summary.

The fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools MCP server is focused on Buddhist textual research. Its documented coverage should not be treated as a general-purpose web search service or a general dictionary outside the indexed FoJin sources.

Read the full README View source on GitHub

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Frequently Asked Questions about Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools is an MCP server that connects AI assistants to FoJin’s indexed Buddhist text corpus. Its main tools search the canon, retrieve passages, find cross-canon parallels, and query dictionaries. Results are read-only and can include stable FoJin URN citations for source references.

You do not need to install it when using the hosted endpoint; configure your MCP client with https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp. For local use, start the published package with `uvx fojin-mcp`, or install it with pip and connect it to your own FoJin instance.

No, the hosted MCP endpoint is documented as requiring no API key. Point an MCP client at `https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp`; local deployments use the separately documented FoJin platform setup.

You can search indexed Buddhist texts, retrieve passages, compare cross-canon parallels, and look up dictionary entries. The described corpus covers more than 600 sources and includes Classical Chinese, Pali, Tibetan, and Sanskrit material.

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