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 *DSAL*

== On the two giant Buddhas of Bamian, Afghanistan, destroyed in 2001: *New York Times*

T E X T S

== 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): *Project Gutenberg*