2,500-Year-Old Scriptures Surge in App Store Lifestyle Category — Forbes JAPAN Featured Buddhist AI 'AI Buddha Zen' Enters Top 100.
VeritasChain's Buddhist AI dialogue app 'AI Buddha Zen' has entered the Top 100 in the App Store's lifestyle category just one week after release. It has also been featured in Forbes JAPAN, garnering attention for its proprietary RAG database technology.
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The Buddhist AI dialogue app "AI Buddha Zen" (iOS version), developed and operated by VeritasChain Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Tokachi Uemura), ranked in the top 100 in the lifestyle category of the Apple App Store on March 30, 2026.
This was achieved just one week after the official release of the iOS app on March 24.
## Featured in Forbes JAPAN
AI Buddha Zen was featured on the web version of Forbes JAPAN on March 28, 2026. Its proprietary technologies, such as a RAG database of over 10,000 Buddhist verses, a system for specifying sources, and spiritual bypassing detection, were highlighted.
Forbes JAPAN article:
https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/94376
To use it, you simply write "what comes to mind" in the prompt or upload a photo. After a short wait, AI Buddha will give you an answer. If you are consulting about your worries, it analyzes the content, classifies it into 20 themes such as human relations, work, anxiety, loneliness, family, and death, selects the 5 most relevant verses, extracts 1 or 2 more from them, and presents a story incorporating them. Because it remembers previously quoted verses, the same ones are not repeated.
For example, when consulting about the worries of nursing care, it replies like this: "It is written in the Therigatha (Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns): 'Pounding rice with a pestle, serving my husband, raising my child, I suffered for a long time. But now, I am freed. (omitted) Who are you?' Those words are spoken by the illness. The love for you still exists in the depths of your mother's heart, deeper than memory. [Reference] Therigatha Verse 1."
To prevent the display of non-existent verses due to AI hallucination, the source is always specified, and if a verse that matches the content of the story cannot be found, it honestly answers that it cannot quote the original text. That represents the sincere attitude unique to VeritasChain.
This was achieved just one week after the official release of the iOS app on March 24.
## Featured in Forbes JAPAN
AI Buddha Zen was featured on the web version of Forbes JAPAN on March 28, 2026. Its proprietary technologies, such as a RAG database of over 10,000 Buddhist verses, a system for specifying sources, and spiritual bypassing detection, were highlighted.
Forbes JAPAN article:
https://forbesjapan.com/articles/detail/94376
To use it, you simply write "what comes to mind" in the prompt or upload a photo. After a short wait, AI Buddha will give you an answer. If you are consulting about your worries, it analyzes the content, classifies it into 20 themes such as human relations, work, anxiety, loneliness, family, and death, selects the 5 most relevant verses, extracts 1 or 2 more from them, and presents a story incorporating them. Because it remembers previously quoted verses, the same ones are not repeated.
For example, when consulting about the worries of nursing care, it replies like this: "It is written in the Therigatha (Poems of Early Buddhist Nuns): 'Pounding rice with a pestle, serving my husband, raising my child, I suffered for a long time. But now, I am freed. (omitted) Who are you?' Those words are spoken by the illness. The love for you still exists in the depths of your mother's heart, deeper than memory. [Reference] Therigatha Verse 1."
To prevent the display of non-existent verses due to AI hallucination, the source is always specified, and if a verse that matches the content of the story cannot be found, it honestly answers that it cannot quote the original text. That represents the sincere attitude unique to VeritasChain.