#1 The birth of Siddhartha him Gautama happened when a elephant touched the side of his mother and she conceived him, the enlightenment of him delivered sermons to the ascetics, traveled with him and told others that asceticism or samsarc couldn't release people from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. 
#2 first council is the mountain the purity of the memories and to pass the recitations on the others, tried to come to the same agreement on Siddhartha teachings, the second council is called to address questionable practices of some libera monks who sought a relation of monastic discipline, including permission to store salt to eat afternoon to palm wine, and to accept silver and gold, 
third council is called to purity of its various irregularities.
#3 he was a anti war, and the devotion of others attracted king ashhoka. the most popular Vajrayana sacred text is the Tibetan book of the new, its read when someone is dying or dead.
#4 the Japanese were attracted because the Japanese rulers were readily patronized to Buddhism, the practitioners of Shinto the indigenous religious tradition of japan was less welcoming, at first.
#5 Countries in Asia that had Buddhism for sometime in present day AfghanistanUzbekistan,  TajikistanPakistan, and parts of Iran, also in Thailand and Myanmar. and china, Korea, japan, and Tibet.
#Dali lama is the head of the Tibetan Buddhist monastic leaders, and also was the political leader of Tibet until the Chinese communist government forced them out of Tibet in 1959. 




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