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While I agree with you on most points, I get from your post that apparantly Buddhism rolled in from California during the 60's. I think I have misunderstood you, but in case I haven't I will correct you. Buddhism is much older than the 60's. It first appeared in the US during the early 60's as many immagrants from Asia (Japan, China, Vietnam) began to make their way here. Obviously, many of them first arrived in California, and thus the religion was introduced to America in a large dose. Buddhism however has existed in some form since at least the 1892 worlds fair in Chicago, when the World Religious Council met.

Again, sorry if I meisunderstood you, I certainly don't want to lecture.

Buddhism was popular among certain circles as early as the 1880's. The painter John La Farge and Henry Adams (grandson of John Quincy Adams) traveled to Japan to study Buddhism in 1886. The statue "Grief" in Rock Creek Park DC, dedicated to Adam's wife Marian (who committed suicide), was inspired by his studies.