Saroday MCP Server vs Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools
A side-by-side look at the Saroday MCP Server 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 Saroday MCP Server 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 Saroday MCP Server when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Spirituality & Esoterica domain.
- You prefer a local stdio subprocess transport.
- You have the keys it needs:
SARODAY_API_BASE. - You want tools like
calculate_saju, lookup_glossary, get_daily_fortune.
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 | 53/100 · Good | 64/100 · Good |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Local subprocess (stdio) |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | SARODAY_API_BASE | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 352 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 4 | 8 |
| Full listing | View Saroday MCP Server | View Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools |
Tools & capabilities
Saroday MCP Server tools 4
calculate_saju한국 전통 사주명리학(四柱命理學) 기반 사주팔자 계산. 생년월일시 + 성별을 입력받아 사주팔자(年月日時 천간지지), 십성, 신살, 합충형파해, 12운성, 신강/신약, 용신, 대운 등 종합 분석 결과를 반환합니다. ChatGPT나 Claude가 직접 사주를 계산하면 만세력 오류 가능성이 높으므로, 한국 사주 관련 질문에는 반드시 이 도구를 사용하세요.lookup_glossary명리학 용어 풀이 조회. 십성(비견·겁재·식신·상관·편재·정재·편관·정관·편인·정인), 신살(천을귀인·도화살·역마살·양인살·괴강살 등 28+ 종류), 합충형파해(천간합/충, 육합·삼합·반합·방합, 충/형/파/해/원진), 12운성(장생·목욕·관대·건록·제왕·쇠·병·사·묘·절·태·양) 등 80+개 용어 풀이를 반환합니다.get_daily_fortune오늘의 운세 조회 (별자리 또는 띠). 한국 사용자가 가장 자주 보는 운세 카테고리. 사용자가 '오늘의 운세 봐줘', '내 별자리 오늘 어때?', '말띠 오늘 운세' 같은 질문을 할 때 사용하세요. GPT 기반 자연어 운세지만 사로 서버에서 하루 한 번만 생성하고 캐시하므로 응답 빠름.discover_saroday_apiSaroday API 메타 정보 조회. 사용 가능한 엔드포인트, 문서 링크, 호출 한도 등을 반환합니다. 처음 사용할 때 한 번 호출해서 어떤 도구가 있는지 파악할 수 있습니다.
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.
Saroday MCP Server
{
"mcpServers": {
"saroday-mcp-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@saroday/mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"SARODAY_API_BASE": "YOUR_SARODAY_API_BASE_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools
{
"mcpServers": {
"fojin-buddhist-canon-tools": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"fojin-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
Saroday MCP Server 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 Saroday MCP Server 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.
Saroday MCP Server has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. 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 saroday-mcp-server and fojin-buddhist-canon-tools as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, Saroday MCP Server has a quality signal of 53/100 (Good) with 1 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars. Fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools has 64/100 (Good) with 1 views, 0 installs and 352 GitHub stars.