commentaries
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
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | No | ||
| quote | Yes |