# Fojin MCP server

Source: https://glimind.com/server/mcp-registry%2Fapp.fojin%2Ffojin-mcp
Registry id: `mcp-registry/app.fojin/fojin-mcp`
Status: live (checked 2026-10-26T21:20:04.733Z)

## Measurements (30 days)

- Uptime: 100%
- Checks: 4937
- Outages (90 days): 12

## Install

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fojin-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Claude Code:

```sh
claude mcp add --transport http fojin-mcp-server https://mcp.fojin.ai/mcp
```

## Tools (8)

- `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 — each
- `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 yo
- `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`.
- `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 — 
- `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.
- `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 sco
- `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 plausible-

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