Tripitaka MCP

Created By
dhamma-seekera month ago
Search and cite the full Pāli Canon (Tipiṭaka, ~444K segments) — Sutta, Vinaya, Abhidhamma at parity with SuttaCentral. Hybrid search, full-sutta fetch, translation comparison, Pāli word lookup. Free, non-commercial, offered as Dhamma Dāna.
Overview

Tripitaka MCP

An MCP server giving Claude (and any MCP-compatible client) access to the full Pāli Tipiṭaka — ~444,000 segments at parity with SuttaCentral's bilara-data:

  • Sutta Piṭaka — Pāli + Bhikkhu Sujato English (~284K segments)
  • Vinaya Piṭaka — Pāli + Bhikkhu Brahmali English (~71K segments)
  • Abhidhamma Piṭaka — Pāli only (~88K segments; bilara has no English for Abhidhamma)

Features

  • 🔍 Hybrid search — trigram keyword + vector semantic via RRF
  • 📖 Full-sutta fetch — every segment with cross-reference URLs to SuttaCentral and 84000.org
  • 🌐 Translation comparison — side-by-side, segment-aligned across editions
  • 📚 Pāli word lookup — against the P. A. Payutto Thai Buddhist dictionary, PTS, DPPN
  • 🔬 Inflection analyzer — strip Pāli suffixes to recover root forms (bhikkhūnaṁbhikkhu)
  • 📡 Dual transport — Streamable HTTP (/mcp, MCP spec 2025-03-26) + legacy SSE (/sse)
  • 📦 MCP Resourcestripitaka://structure, tripitaka://sutta/{id}, tripitaka://word/{w}

How to use

Hosted (no setup): add this to claude_desktop_config.json:

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tripitaka": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.tripitaka-mcp.com/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Self-host: clone the repo, run ./scripts/install.sh (uses a prepared HuggingFace dump → 5-min setup vs 2-4 hr fresh load).

License & ethos MIT (code) — see NOTICE.md for data licenses (some non-commercial). Project offered as Dhamma Dāna — free, non-commercial use for study, research, and practice.

Links 🌐 Website: https://tripitaka-mcp.com 📦 Source: https://github.com/dhamma-seeker/tripitaka-mcp 🔗 Hosted endpoint: https://mcp.tripitaka-mcp.com/mcp

Server Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tripitaka": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.tripitaka-mcp.com/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
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Created At
a month ago
Updated At
22 days ago
Author Name
dhamma-seeker
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