Emaho Foundation

Welcome to Emaho Foundation

The Sanskrit word emaho (pronounced ay-mah-ho) is an expression of joy and wonder, and an invocation for auspiciousness.

Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Emaho Foundation is a Tibetan Buddhist center serving the greater Phoenix area. Founded in 2001 by ZaChoeje Rinpoche, Emaho is dedicated to sharing Tibetan culture in the West, supporting humanitarian projects worldwide, and assisting with personal spiritual development.

Green Tara 7:00-8:00PM AZ Time with Geshe Namgyal

Green Tara is a feminine emanation of enlightened compassion whose activity of fearless wisdom alleviates fear and obstacles. Identifying with Green Tara's extraordinary qualities of transcendent wisdom, omniscient awareness, fearlessness, and love and compassion allows our own aspects of these innate qualities to arise.

2026 Jan Aligning Body Mind Join us in person or via Zoom on January 17th & 18th for continuation of Aligning Body and Mind Series with emphasis on Tibetan Yoga, Sun and Moon Salutations, and Q&A.

Schedule and Ways to Donate

2026 Mantrathon Sunday 25 Emaho is welcoming 2026 with our one-day Chenrezig retreat and mantra recitation and collection. Our annual mantrathon will be held in-center and via zoom with wishes for a peaceful year, a year of benefical resolution to world problems, a year of healing, happiness and spiritual growth.

The Mantrathon is a worldwide community event, with residents of Drepung Loseling in India, Rinpoche’s friends and students at Trashi Ganden Choepel Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center in New Zealand, friends from Japan, the sangha from Yakima, friends in New Mexico, and of course, our own Phoenix based Emaho center.

2025 Buddha Happy New Year

Dharmsala Tashi Delek, Dear friends.🙏

ZaChoeje Rinpoche is delighted to invite those who wish to join him on a two-week sacred journey to the high Himalayan foothills of Northern India.

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Zoom Webinar Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85934073801?pwd=Y3lYODJyd2d3YXpuSndpN29sVVFKUT09

Webinar Passcode: Dharma / Webinar ID: 859 3407 3801

Link for donations via PayPal - CLICK HERE

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sunday Link for Donations via PayPal:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XM6QUMLGER5CC

Zoom Webinar Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85934073801?pwd=Y3lYODJyd2d3YXpuSndpN29sVVFKUT09

Webinar Passcode: Dharma / Webinar ID: 859 3407 3801

Medicine Buddha 7:00-8:00PM AZ Time with Geshe Namgyal

Emaho Center is pleased to announce Zoom and in-person diety meditation with Geshe Namgyal. Medicine Buddha meditation will also be held on Zoom.

Medicine Buddha is an enlightened emanation of the healing Buddha, who applies active wisdom - alleviating the suffering of all sentient beings. By identifying with the healing and compassionate aspect of Medicine Buddha, we can bring beneficial results that allow us to bring happiness and wellbeing into our lives and the lives of others.

2025 Tricycle Tricycle: The Buddhist Review requested our teacher ZaChoeje Rinpoche to lead guide meditations for their online meditation group on Monday mornings in November. If you would like to watch and meditate with these recordings, here are the links to the each of the sessions:

11/03 Mindfulness click here.
11/10 Bodhicitta click here.
11/17 Love and Compassion click here.
11/24 Wisdom click here.

Emaho start time Emaho Foundation requests on-time attendance for our dharma events. Out of respect for our teacher and our fellow sangha members, the entrance to our center will be locked at the scheduled starting time. For Wednesday night meditations, please be on time by 7 pm. We want a relaxing, safe, meditative environment, without the disturbance of late arrivals. For in-person teachings and workshops, it is OK to ring the doorbell if you are late.

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RInpoche Book Guru yoga is a powerful and profound practice for connecting with your lineage, your teacher, and your own inmost nature. In this handbook, Rinpoche offers instructions for this “ear-whispered” tradition.

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Raghu Markus – Mindrolling – Ep. 477 – The Truth of Struggling with ZaChoeje Rinpoche

"The difference between the enlightened being and the un-enlightened being is: we are all struggling, but an enlightened being stops struggling over the

དུས་གསུམ་སངས་རྒྱས་གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ༔
dü sum sangye guru rinpoche
Embodiment of buddhas of past, present and future, Guru Rinpoche;

དངོས་གྲུབ་ཀུན་བདག་བདེ་བ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཞབས༔
ngödrub kün dak dewa chenpö shyab
Master of all siddhis, Guru of Great Bliss;
བར་ཆད་ཀུན་སེལ་བདུད་འདུལ་དྲག་པོ་རྩལ༔
barché kün sel düdul drakpo tsal
Dispeller of all obstacles, Wrathful Subjugator of Māras;

Available now! Fifteen years of workshops, teachings, and public talks given by ZaChoeje Rinpoche can be downloaded to your smartphone or computer, to listen to at any time.

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Teachings on Emaho's YouTube & Facebook

To view videos teachings on our Youtube channel ~ click here.

To view video teachings on our Facebook ~ click here.

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the Emaho Event Calendar Click Here To View Descriptions of Current Teachings and Meditations

Latest News

New Year message from Rinpoche.

Tashi Delek Dear Dharma students and friends. I read a beautiful message recently by the author T.S.Eliot.

‘For last year’s words belong to last year’s language.

And next year’s words await another voice.’

I want to send my heartfelt thoughts and blessings as we come to the end of 2020, a worrisome pandemic year. I wish you and your loved ones happy and healthy. Please take extra steps to stay safe.

In April of this year, I started “Wednesday’s with Rinpoche”, sharing with the global Facebook community tools and techniques to develop and sustain inner strength. Each Wednesday, I’ve focused on aspects of how we can build inner strength to live happier more peacefully in the face of great difficulty. Each week many of you have asked questions generating good dharma discussions.

As we learned how to navigate live-streaming, we have been keeping in touch by offering programs via Zoom.

2021 is considered by Tibetan astrology as the year of the Iron Ox a fitting symbol of perseverance, energy, honesty and positivity. The Iron Ox is associated with carefulness, loyalty and effort. In 2021 I am looking to offer an in-depth series and life-stream workshops as we continue with stay-at-home while the world begins to heal from the pandemic.

From January 2021 through May of 2021 we will be establishing a matching funds campaign for funds to build a new Za Pang Thang nunnery. The old nunnery was closed this year when a main supporting wall crumbled and collapsed, making the nunnery unsafe and impossible to repair. I am thinking to launch this project mid-January and run through May when the building season resumes.

As we come to the end of this challenging year, we are moving into an encouraging New Year. If vaccine efforts worldwide go as planned, I hope we can emerge safely from our isolation.

I keep you and yours in my daily prayers. I look forward to easier days in 2021 with wishes I can see you in person, that our doors will open and we can join together as a spiritual family and dharma community.

Happy New Year!

Blessings

Zachoeje Rinpoche

Become an Emaho Benefactor

We can't do it without you.

Please join the Emaho Benefactor Circle by becoming an Emaho benefactor. In pledging whatever you can donate monthly, you help shoulder the financial responsibilities of Emaho Foundation. As a benefactor you join our growing Emaho family.

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A request from Rinpoche

ZaChoeje Rinpoche has requested of us to recite Drupthop Thangtong Gyalpo's Vajra speech-A Prayer for Pacifying the Fear of Disease. Click on "Read more: A request from Rinpoche" below to see the entire prayer and to listen to the Geshes chanting this auspicious prayer in Tibetan.

Thank you for your generous donations to Phoenix Homeless Children

Tibetan Water Project Summer 2018

In 2017 Emaho embarked on a regional water project to test the safety of the water in Rinpoche's Tehor region of Eastern Tibet. This year, 2018, we conducted another series of tests, making comparisons. ZaChoeje Rinpoche is looking at implementing green technologies that will allow critical development that does not adversly affect the unique Tibetan landscape, its people, and its culture.

>> Read more about this important project, one of the many we undertake to support Rinpoche and the Tibetan people.

More Information

Collecting non-perishable food items. Each time you come to center, please bring an item

Child poverty has reached record levels in the US, with now almost 17 million children affected.

Emaho continues to support those in need. We ask everyone coming to events at the Emaho Center to bring, each time they come, a non-perishable food item for Mom's Pantry in north Phoenix.
» Read more about our donations to Mom's Pantry