A religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding thatlife is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way toend this suffering is throughenlightenmentthat enables oneto halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject. Photo from Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 2023. (Buffalo, 2017)
