T
I M E L I N E
== A very
helpful timeline,
with maps: *Metropolitan
Museum*
M
A P
== A mapping
of various traditional early Buddhist sites: *buddhanet*
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*; 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*
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*