commentaries
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What the historical commentators said about a passage of Buddhist scripture.
Give a line of a sūtra and get back the classical commentaries that gloss
it — each with the commentator's own words, the work it comes from, a
quality tier, and a resolvable citation. This is the layer no other tool
exposes for the Chinese canon: CBETA marks up almost none of it, and the
alignment behind this was derived text by text.
Two things to read carefully rather than skim. total is how many
commentators the passage actually has — truncated says the list you got
is a sample. And coverage is partial: roughly half of what a commentator
wrote is not aligned, so an absent commentator means "not in the data",
never "he said nothing". When nothing matches, available_sutras tells
you which sūtras have data at all — do not read a miss as silence from the
tradition.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| quote | string | yes | |
| limit | integer | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"properties": {
"quote": {
"title": "Quote",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"default": 8,
"title": "Limit",
"type": "integer"
}
},
"required": [
"quote"
],
"type": "object",
"title": "commentariesArguments"
}