Concept
Fulu
Overview
Fulu (traditional Chinese: 符籙; simplified Chinese: 符箓; pinyin: fúlù) are asemic Taoist magic symbols and incantations, translatable into English as 'talismanic script', which are written or painted on talismans by Taoist practitioners.
These practitioners are called fulu pai (符籙派; fúlù pài; 'the fulu sect'), an informal group made up of priests from different schools of Taoism. Like most aspects of Taoist practice, use of these objects is not confined to Taoism: they have been incorporated into several forms of Chinese Buddhism, and have inspired the ofuda used in Japanese Buddhism and Shinto and the bujeok used in Korean shamanism.
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Closely connected with these original ancestors there is a third sort of totem or of totemic objects which we may briefly designate as _inanimate_. The objects are regarded as possessing magical powers and as having been bequeathed by the original ancestors, thus representing a legacy of the magical Alcheringa age. It is particularly stones and pieces of wood that are held to be the abode of these totemic spirits…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
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They assume that the spirits of the dead who belonged to their totem wait for their re-birth in definite localities and penetrate into the bodies of the women who pass such a spot. When a child is born the mother states at which spirit abode she thinks she conceived her child. This determines the totem of the child. It is further assumed that the spirits (of the dead as well as of the re-born) are bound to peculiar…
Sigmund Freud, Totem and taboo
States what Fulu is.
Rational persons ought not to listen to such men, nor in any way believe their assertions. No other name is called shem ha-meforash except this Tetragrammaton, which is written, but is not pronounced according to its letters. The words, “Thus shall ye bless the children of Israel” (Num. vi.
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
States what Fulu is.
Related ideas
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- Shinto
- Taoism
- Korean shamanism
- Ming dynasty
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Place in the tradition
Part of Spiritualism (beliefs).