Fojin MCP server

What it does

FoJin is an MCP server that provides access to Buddhist canonical texts across 612 sources in multiple languages (Classical Chinese, Pali, Tibetan, Sanskrit). It enables AI assistants to answer questions about Buddhist texts with URN-cited passages, cross-canon parallels, and verifiable quotations from a corpus of 670K+ embedded passages.

• Query Buddhist canonical texts in plain language and receive cited answers with clickable source references that link to exact passages.
• Verify whether a Buddhist quotation is accurate and check if a citation points to the correct passage and juan (volume).
• Research complex multi-step questions about Buddhist doctrine by retrieving and synthesizing passages across different canons with dictionary and knowledge graph support.

Tools this server exposes

Tool	Does
search	Search across 10,500+ Buddhist texts from 612 sources with multi-dimensional filtering.
query	Ask a question in plain language and receive a cited answer from the Buddhist canon with RAG-retrieved passages.
passage	Retrieve a specific passage by URN citation (e.g., fojin:cbeta/T0001.1) with full text and metadata.
parallels	Find cross-canon parallels for a passage across Chinese, Pali, and Tibetan versions.
verify_quote	Check whether a given quotation is verbatim in the canon and whether its citation is correct.
dictionary	Look up terms in one of 39 Buddhist dictionaries with 747K entries.
commentary	Retrieve historical Buddhist master commentaries anchored to specific passages and juan.
research	Plan and execute multi-step research across the corpus, dictionaries, and knowledge graph to answer complex questions with synthesis.

Before you enable it

An MCP server runs with whatever access you give it. Start with a development account rather than production, and check which tools the server exposes before you let an agent call them unattended.