- Tripitaka MCP
Tripitaka MCP
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 (
bhikkhūnaṁ→bhikkhu) - 📡 Dual transport — Streamable HTTP (
/mcp, MCP spec 2025-03-26) + legacy SSE (/sse) - 📦 MCP Resources —
tripitaka://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"
]
}
}
}Project Info
Created At
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23 days agoAuthor Name
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