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• words foreign to English are italized.
• if an italized word has a link,  there is an entry for it in the dictionary.
• if one or more English words have a link, this link will point to a related chapter.
• if a proper name has a link, it will point to another website.

• a number in round brackets indicates a quote that can be found in the quote collection; example:  (11).
• a number in square brackets indicates a reference to a book that is listed in the bibliography; example:  [22].
• Masculine and neuter Pali nouns ending in -o in the nominative, are given in the nominative even though there is a wide usage of the -a ending for historical (?) reasons. The latter usage easily causes confusion between words of other declinations and cases.
• The person known as the 'Buddha' (which, grammatically correct, should be 'Buddho', see last paragraph), requested not to be addressed with a name other than 'Tathagatho' or 'Gotamo Siddartho'. In this book this expressive wish of his will be respected.
• [-] denotes a future link to a chapter that has not yet been written.