Tripitaka MCP Server

An MCP server for searching and citing content from the Pāli Tipiṭaka. It lets AI clients such as Claude or Cursor look up suttas, quote the teachings, and compare translations across languages.

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

✨ Features

• Full Tipiṭaka coverage, at parity with SuttaCentral. All three baskets are indexed, about 444K segments. Sutta carries Pāli plus English from bilara-data’s translators (Bhikkhu Sujato for DN/MN/SN/AN and most of the Khuddaka Nikāya, with John Kelly, Bhikkhu Kovilo and others for a few KN books). Vinaya carries Pāli plus Bhikkhu Brahmali’s English. Abhidhamma is Pāli only, because upstream bilara-data has no English for any Abhidhamma book. list_structure reports live counts.
• Hybrid search merges keyword and semantic results through Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF). It is the most precise of the search tools and needs no configuration.
• Keyword search with trigram fuzzy matching and cross-language alignment.
• Semantic search by meaning, using vector similarity (pgvector).
• Translation comparison across editions, aligned segment by segment.
• Dictionary bridge with 20,000+ entries (P. A. Payutto, PTS, DPPN).
• Sutta fetch and citations. Get a sutta by ID (mn1, pli-tv-bu-vb-pj1, patthana1.1) and generate a properly formatted academic citation.
• Pāli word analyzer that strips inflectional suffixes to find the root form when a dictionary lookup misses (bhikkhūnaṁ → bhikkhu).
• Cross-reference URLs in every response: a clickable deep link into the project’s own bilingual reader (Pāli + English, with a segment anchor that highlights the cited verse). The reader renders SuttaCentral’s bilara-data verbatim, so it is the authoritative text, and AI clients surface the link so users can verify the source in one click.