Pãli: An ancient variant of Sanskrit, Pãli is the literary language of the early Buddhists and the language in which the texts of the original Buddhist Canon are preserved. Most of the terms that have been italicized in this book are Pãli words.

　　巴利語(Pāli)：作爲古代梵文的變體，巴利語是早期佛教的語言，原始佛教經典所用的語言即是巴利語。這本書中的許多專有名詞皆從巴利語翻譯過來。