FoJin v1.0.0 — Initial Release

Frontend: React 18 + TypeScript + Ant Design 5
Backend: FastAPI + SQLAlchemy async
Database: PostgreSQL 15 (pgvector) + Elasticsearch 8 + Redis 7
Deployment: Docker Compose one-command setup

The world's encyclopedic Buddhist digital text platform.

Highlights

504 data sources aggregated from CBETA, SuttaCentral, BDRC, 84000, SAT, GRETIL, and more
9,200+ texts in Pali, Classical Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and 26 other languages
7,600+ full-text readings available online
8 UI languages — Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Sinhala, Burmese

Multi-dimensional search — Full-text search powered by Elasticsearch with ICU tokenizer for CJK, Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan
Parallel reading — Side-by-side comparison of translations across 30 languages
AI Q&A (XiaoJin) — RAG-based question answering grounded in 38 core sutras (~11M characters), with source citations
Knowledge graph — 9,600+ entities and 3,800+ relationships, interactive D3 visualization
Dictionary lookup — 6 authoritative dictionaries, 237K+ entries (DDB, NCPED, Edgerton BHS, Monier-Williams, and more)
IIIF manuscript viewer — View original manuscripts from BDRC and other collections
Collections, bookmarks & annotations — Personal study tools for organizing research
Citation export — BibTeX, RIS, and APA formats for academic use

git clone https://github.com/xr843/fojin.git
cd fojin
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d

Visit http://localhost:3000 to start exploring.

Apache License 2.0 — applies to FoJin source code only. Third-party data sources retain their own licenses.