# fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

> fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools, an MCP server by fojin.app, listed from the official MCP registry. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.md (~1,150 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.min.md (~1,080 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fojin-mcp.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-05

# fojin — Buddhist Canon Tools

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from the official MCP registry and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: MCP server, by fojin.app (https://fojin.app)
- Listed because: It's published in the registry under fojin.app, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain. It's in real use: 345 GitHub stars.
- What the official MCP registry says: Buddhist canon tools: search, passages, cross-canon parallels, dictionaries — all URN-cited.

## Facts

- MCP registry: `app.fojin/fojin-mcp` 0.4.0
- Endpoint: https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp (streamable HTTP)
- Source: https://github.com/xr843/fojin
- Website: https://fojin.app
- GitHub stars: 345
- Registry entry updated: 2026-08-10

## Tools

- Tools it lists (8, about 1,401 tokens of context, `tools/list` without credentials over MCP 2026-07-28, checked 2026-10-04 22:21 UTC):
  - `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…
  - `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 —…
  - `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…
  - `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`.
  - `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.
  - `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…
  - `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 —…
- How its tools read to an agent (0 errors, 16 warnings, 2 notes, about 1,401 tokens; rules at https://www.anchorterminal.com/check.md; not part of the score):
  - warn TC11 commentaries: none of its 2 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 get_parallels: none of its 2 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 lookup_dictionary: none of its 2 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 lookup_entity: none of its 2 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 read_passage: none of its 2 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 resolve_urn: its one parameter, urn, has no description
  - warn TC11 search_corpus: none of its 3 parameters has a description
  - warn TC11 verify_quote: none of its 3 parameters has a description
  - warn TC16 commentaries: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - warn TC16 get_parallels: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - warn TC16 lookup_dictionary: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - warn TC16 lookup_entity: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - warn TC16 read_passage: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - warn TC16 resolve_urn: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - warn TC16 search_corpus: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - warn TC16 verify_quote: no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
  - note TC24 server: 8 of 8 tools have no outputSchema
  - note TC29 server: about 141 tokens (10% of the definitions) are titles that repeat property or function names

- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/fojin-mcp.json
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