T I M E L I N E

== A very helpful timeline, with maps: *Metropolitan Museum*

M A P

== Sites where early coins have been found suggest the contours of the Buddhist world: *a coin collectors' site*

I M A G E S

== Early Buddhist rock-cut temples: Bhaja, 2nd/1st c. BCE: *Berger Collection*; Karle: *Berger Collection*

== "The Life of the Buddha," in artworks from the *Metropolitan Museum*

== Some of the famous Ashokan pillars: *DSAL*

== The glories of Sanchi (2nd/1st c. BCE onwards):  from the *Berger Collection*; from *AIIS*; and over 600 images from *DSAL*

==The Great Stupa at Sarnath (near Varanasi), where the Buddha is said to have preached his first sermon: *Berger Collection*

== "The Illustrated Jataka and Other Stories about the Buddha," by C. B. Verma: *IGNCA*

== A modern pilgrimage to the early Buddhist sites: *an individual website*

== Many of the early Buddhist sites as they look today: *kalavinka*

T E X T S

== "The Edicts of King Asoka": *accesstoinsight*

== "The Questions of King Milinda" (2nd c. BCE): *Univ. of Miami*

== An excellent, authoritative Theravada text source: *accesstoinsight.org*

== Buddhism in a British colonial perspective-- the Buddha's life *Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-31); and Buddhist literature: *Imperial Gazetteer*

== A useful modern overview site: *alterity*
 

== *special access*: Williams, P.