io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp

MCP server for the full Pāli Canon — search, cite, compare translations. Offered as Dhamma Dāna.

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Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktop, · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-dhamma-seeker-tripitaka-mcp": {
      "command": "<see-readme>",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

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What io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp does

An MCP Server for searching and citing content from the Pāli Tipiṭaka. Gives AI agents (such as Claude or Cursor) the ability to look up suttas, quote the teachings, and compare translations across languages.

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Is io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp safe to use?: io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp?: io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.
What AI clients work with io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp?: io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses and transport.
Is io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 13 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.

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Tripitaka MCP Server

🙏 This project is offered as Dhamma Dāna — 100% free, non-commercial only. License details: LICENSE (code) + NOTICE.md (data)

✨ Features

📚 Full Tipiṭaka coverage at parity with SuttaCentral — all three baskets indexed (~444K segments): Sutta (Pāli + Sujato English), Vinaya (Pāli + Brahmali English), and Abhidhamma (Pāli only — no English in upstream bilara-data for any Abhidhamma book). Live counts via list_structure.

⚖️ Hybrid Search — highest precision by combining keyword and semantic search through Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF). Ready to use.

🔍 Keyword Search — trigram fuzzy matching with cross-language alignment.

🧠 Semantic Search — meaning-based search via vector similarity (pgvector).

📖 Translation Comparison — view and compare renderings across editions, aligned at the segment level.

📚 Dictionary Bridge — built-in dictionary of 20,000+ entries (P. A. Payutto, PTS, DPPN).

📖 Get Sutta & Reference — fetch sutta content by ID (e.g. mn1, pli-tv-bu-vb-pj1, patthana1.1) and generate properly formatted academic citations.

🔬 Pāli word analyzer — strip inflectional suffixes to find the root form when dictionary lookup misses (bhikkhūnaṁ → bhikkhu).

🔗 Cross-reference URLs in every response — clickable deep links to SuttaCentral (Pāli + Sujato English + segment anchor) plus 84000.org volume routing for Thai users. AI clients can surface these so users verify the source in one click.

📡 Dual transport — both legacy SSE (/sse) and canonical Streamable HTTP (/mcp, MCP spec 2025-03-26).

📦 MCP Resources — tripitaka://structure, tripitaka://sutta/{id}, tripitaka://word/{w} for clients that pin context as resources.

📄 Curated reference pages at /topics/* — six markdown pages covering canon structure, getting-started + tool selection, places (Mahājanapada + holy sites + cosmology), 10 foundational themes with locus classicus, ~30 major figures, and a phase-based timeline of the Buddha's 45-year mission. Sutta IDs verified against live data; AI clients can fetch a page in one shot instead of running 30+ tool calls.

🤖 Claude skill — skills/tipitaka-research.md ships a ready-to-install workflow file that activates a multi-step research pattern (clarify → verify coverage → search → drill in → cite) on Claude Desktop / Claude Code.

📮 Postman Ready — ships with a Postman collection for testing the API.

Technology	Role
Python + FastMCP	MCP Server
PostgreSQL + pgvector	Database + Vector Search
sentence-transformers	Embeddings for semantic search
Docker Compose	Infrastructure

Technology

Role

Python + FastMCP

MCP Server

PostgreSQL + pgvector

Database + Vector Search

sentence-transformers

Embeddings for semantic search

Docker Compose

Infrastructure

Frequently Asked Questions

Is io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp safe to use?

io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.

How do I install io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp?

io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp can be installed by cloning its GitHub repository and following the setup instructions in the README.

What AI clients work with io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp?

io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses and transport.

Is io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp actively maintained?

io.github.dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 13 days ago. It has 1 GitHub stars.