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Dalai Lama Greeted along Mississippi River Mayor Pro-Tem Gives Dalai Lama a Fist-Bump Folks Traveling With Dalai Lama say He Approved of Greeting
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(Memhis September 22, 2009) It's the fist bump being talked about from Memphis to the United Kingdom.
When Memphis Mayor Pro-Tem Myron Lowery greeted The Dalai Lama on the banks of the Mississippi River Tuesday, he bumped fists with His Holiness, then said "Hello Dalai!"
The Dalai Lama's favorite musician, Loten, who is traveling along side him during his visit to Memphis, says the spiritual leader had no problem with the greeting. "He took it very, very easily," Loten said in response to criticism from some viewers who saw the fist bump and wrote in to say it was "embarrassing."
The Dalai Lama is in Memphis to receive the International Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum. Museum President Beverly Robertson says His Holiness is a believer and follower of Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent social change theory. "One of the things he said to us already, is he never had the opportunity to meet King, but he feels his spirit all over Memphis," Robertson says.
Civil Rights Pioneer Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Sr. says The Dalai Lama is living out Dr. King's dream of a non-violent route toward peace. "It looks too often that the first thing we do is resort to armies and navies and violence. Thank God we have people like The Dalai Lama who understands that peace will not be achieved that way," Hooks says.
Dalai Lama Greeted along Mississippi River Mayor Pro-Tem Gives Dalai Lama a Fist-Bump Folks Traveling With Dalai Lama say He Approved of Greeting
tom.powell@wreg.com
twitter.com\tompowell3
(Memhis September 22, 2009) It's the fist bump being talked about from Memphis to the United Kingdom.
When Memphis Mayor Pro-Tem Myron Lowery greeted The Dalai Lama on the banks of the Mississippi River Tuesday, he bumped fists with His Holiness, then said "Hello Dalai!"
The Dalai Lama's favorite musician, Loten, who is traveling along side him during his visit to Memphis, says the spiritual leader had no problem with the greeting. "He took it very, very easily," Loten said in response to criticism from some viewers who saw the fist bump and wrote in to say it was "embarrassing."
The Dalai Lama is in Memphis to receive the International Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum. Museum President Beverly Robertson says His Holiness is a believer and follower of Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent social change theory. "One of the things he said to us already, is he never had the opportunity to meet King, but he feels his spirit all over Memphis," Robertson says.
Civil Rights Pioneer Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Sr. says The Dalai Lama is living out Dr. King's dream of a non-violent route toward peace. "It looks too often that the first thing we do is resort to armies and navies and violence. Thank God we have people like The Dalai Lama who understands that peace will not be achieved that way," Hooks says.
