{"id":823,"date":"2009-09-23T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/09\/dalai-lama-in-memphis-fist-bump-is-the-new-namaste.html"},"modified":"2009-09-23T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:34:13","slug":"dalai-lama-in-memphis-fist-bump-is-the-new-namaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/09\/dalai-lama-in-memphis-fist-bump-is-the-new-namaste.html","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama in Memphis: Fist Bump is the New Namaste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dalai-lama_memphis_fist_bump.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/dalai-lama_memphis_fist_bump.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" height=\"434\" width=\"351\" \/><\/span><i>by Ethan Nichtern<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, the interim Mayor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/31\/myron-lowery-sworn-66th-mayor-memphis\/\">Memphis<\/a>, Myron Lowery concocted a new way to greet His Holiness the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i8kTR3vjMFBfl-Tx5ho3rIkOy2wQD9AT37701\">Dalai Lama: Fist Bump!<\/a> Yes, that&#8217;s right. He also said &#8220;Hello, Dalai.&#8221; Apparently his Holiness was a bit confused, but chuckled when Lowery showed him how to properly executed the bump. I wonder if Fox News will accuse His Holiness of giving a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/newsbloggers\/2008\/06\/10\/fox-calls-obamas-fist-bump-a-terrorist-fist-jab\/\">Terrorist Fist Bump.<\/a> Given that The Dalai Lama told CNN last year that he is actually a Marxist philosophically, the cable news media might find a way to link this meeting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article6846041.ece\">Sarah Palin&#8217;s Death Panels<\/a> (If it tries hard enough). But a more pressing question to people who <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/\">meditate<\/a> and Buddhist practitioners: Is a fist bump the new <a href=\"http:\/\/yogajournal.com\/\">namaste<\/a>?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Here is raw video via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/09\/23\/dalai-lama-fist-bumped-by_n_295977.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>. The AP seems to report confusion where there was none. All in all, a beautiful moment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ethan Nichtern According to the Associated Press, the interim Mayor of Memphis, Myron Lowery concocted a new way to greet His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Fist Bump! Yes, that&#8217;s right. He also said &#8220;Hello, Dalai.&#8221; Apparently his Holiness was a bit confused, but chuckled when Lowery showed him how to properly executed the bump.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media","category-buddhism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dalai Lama in Memphis: Fist Bump is the New Namaste - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/09\/dalai-lama-in-memphis-fist-bump-is-the-new-namaste.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dalai Lama in Memphis: Fist Bump is the New Namaste - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Ethan Nichtern According to the Associated Press, the interim Mayor of Memphis, Myron Lowery concocted a new way to greet His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Fist Bump! 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