T I M E L I N E

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

I M A G E S

== Nalanda, the great Buddhist university in Bihar (from 6th c.): many images from two scholarly sites (AIIS):  *Univ. of Pennsylvania*  and *DSAL*

== The two giant Buddhas of Bamian, Afghanistan (destroyed in 2001): *kaladarshan*

T E X T S

== John C. Powers, ed., Buddhism, an Introduction (1997):*Australian National Univ.*

== Mahayana texts online: *sacred-texts*

== "Buddhist Schools and Lineages," according to *buddhanet*

== Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline, trans. James Legge (1886): downloadable through *Project Gutenberg*
 

== *special access*: Malandra, G. H.