Tripitaka MCP
JSON →Search and cite the full PÄli Canon (Tipiá¹aka, ~444K segments) â Sutta, Vinaya, Abhidhamma at parity with SuttaCentral. Hybrid search, full-sutta fetch, translation comparison, PÄli word lookup. Free, non-commercial, offered as Dhamma DÄna.
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# Tools · 10
- list_structure Lists the structure of the Tipiṭaka, including all three baskets (Vinaya, Sutta, Abhidhamma) with live segment counts.
- search_keyword Performs keyword search using trigram fuzzy matching with cross-language alignment across Pāli and English.
- search_semantic Performs meaning-based semantic search via vector similarity (pgvector) for finding conceptually related content.
- search_hybrid Combines keyword and semantic search through Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) for highest precision.
- get_sutta Fetches sutta content by ID (e.g. mn1, pli-tv-bu-vb-pj1, patthana1.1) and returns the text.
- get_reference Generates properly formatted academic citations for a given sutta or text reference.
- compare_translations Views and compares renderings across different translations, aligned at the segment level.
- lookup_dictionary Looks up a Pāli word in the built-in dictionary of 20,000+ entries (P. A. Payutto, PTS, DPPN).
- analyze_pali_word Strips inflectional suffixes from a Pāli word to find the root form when dictionary lookup misses (e.g., bhikkhūnaṁ → bhikkhu).
- get_resource Fetches MCP resources such as tripitaka://structure, tripitaka://sutta/{id}, or tripitaka://word/{w}.
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