{"id":1996,"date":"2002-05-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/16\/2002-05-16-lectures-by-author-who-brought-nepalese-amma-to-america\/"},"modified":"2002-05-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-16T12:00:00","slug":"2002-05-16-lectures-by-author-who-brought-nepalese-amma-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/16\/2002-05-16-lectures-by-author-who-brought-nepalese-amma-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures by Author Who Brought Nepalese &#8220;Amma to America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.broughtoncoburn.com\/\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>WILSON, WYOMING, May 16, 2002: Aama&#8217;s Journey: A Pilgrimage Between Continents and Cultures is an illustrated lecture presentation by Broughton Coburn, a best-selling author and Harvard graduate who has spent two of the past three decades in the Himalayas. This program headlined America&#8217;s Knife and Fork Clubs (35 appearances) and has thrilled museums, associations, social groups, universities, schools, libraries and professional societies across the United States. If you know of a venue that may be interested in booking this fascinating, rollicking and poignant program, please visit &#8220;source&#8221; above, www.unusualspeaker.com or phone (307) 733-4124. Broughton&#8217;s original book, &#8220;Amma in America&#8221; is the delightful tale of the former peace-corp volunteer who decided to bring &#8220;Amma,&#8221; an elderly lady in the village in Nepal he served in, to America. The ensuing adventures of this very odd couple in America are a charming commentary on the wisdom and insight of this supposedly &#8220;backward&#8221; village lady who fearlessly takes on, among other issues, Western irreverence for the Divine.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE WILSON, WYOMING, May 16, 2002: Aama&#8217;s Journey: A Pilgrimage Between Continents and Cultures is an illustrated lecture,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}