The lived experience of Buddhist-oriented religious coping in late life: Buddhism as a cognitive schema.
Journal of Health Psychology September 1, 2021 Jianbin Xu
Older Buddhists in Singapore use Buddhist beliefs and practices to cope with stress in three distinct ways: meaning-making coping, meditative coping, and ego-transcendence coping. Meaning-making coping involves using the concepts of karma and duḥkha to understand stress. Meditative coping includes visualization and mantra meditation. Ego-transcendence coping relies on the idea of non-attachment to the ego. These three coping methods can be understood through a Buddhism-as-cognitive-schema perspective.