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.

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Logyonma prayer and mantra for preventing and pacifying epidemics translated by ZaChoeje Rinpoche

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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Wednesday January 29

6:30pm-6:50pm Mantra and Mudra Class Geshe Namgyal will be offering classes on both chanting (mantra) and hand gestures (mudra}.
7:00pm-8:00pm Bodhicitta Meditation In this meditation we create within us the wish to become enlightened for the sake of all beings which is the foundation of compassion. Together, compassion and wisdom lead to full enlightenment.

Thursday January 30

9:00am-9:45am Jataka Tale Jataka in Pali and Sanskrit means birth. These popular stories of the former lives of Buddha helps us develope personal characteristics beneficial for those aspiring for the enlightened state free from suffering and the causes of suffering.

These stories help us see how to develop knowledge while learning how to face our struggles. These stories show us how to develop values and qualities such as patience, forbearance, tolerance, loving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity. The purpose of these stories helps us develop the moral and ethical tools we can use to create a more peaceful and healthy global community. Geshe will tell one story each class. Attending each class and submitting a written paper will qualify the student to receive a certificate of accomplishment of this important subject in Buddhism.
10:00am-10:45am Silent Meditation Sit in meditation, watch your mind, collect mantra, or reflect.

Friday January 31

Saturday February 1

Sunday February 2

9:00am-9:30am Tibetan Yoga with Geshe Lobsang Chophel
9:30am-10:30am Bodhicitta Meditation In this meditation we create within us the wish to become enlightened for the sake of all beings which is the foundation of compassion. Together, compassion and wisdom lead to full enlightenment.
10:30am-11:00am Book Club Topic: His Holiness The Dalai Lama's book- Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence.
Moderator: Denise Vail
11:00am-12:00am Rinpoche's Video Teaching
12:00am-12:30pm Mantra and Mudra Class Geshe Namgyal will be offering classes on both chanting (mantra) and hand gestures (mudra}.
7:00pm-8:00pm Medicine Buddha Meditation In the words of ZaChoeje Rinpoche: “We all have healing, loving, wisdom and compassionate aspects.” Through the Medicine Buddha practice we invoke our healing power and increase our self-confidence so we can bring more healing to ourselves and others.

Teachings on YouTube

37 Factors of Enlightenment - May 1, 2016

Tonglen - August 31, 2005

Video Teachings on Emaho Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/emahofb/

Click here to download the translation of the mantra used in Rinpoche's teaching on Vajrasattva (pdf)

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

Latest News

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.

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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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Thank you for your generous donations to Phoenix Homeless Children

Losar Message from ZaChoeje Rinpoche

Tashi Delek and Happy Losar (Tibetan New Year), year of the Earth Pig. In Tibetan astrology the Earth Pig is associated with overall fortune. It symbolizes hard work, truthfulness, sincerity and humor. I’m here with my mom and family in South India getting ready for our traditional Tibetan Losar celebration. For Tibetans Losar is the major family celebration much like Western Christmas. Losar is a time of purification, new beginnings, family get togethers, fantastic food mindfully prepared and shared. Before sunrise Tuesday, February 5th I’ll begin the day with prayers honoring Buddha, Dharma and Sangha as well as prayers to Palden Lhamo with various offerings. I will include all of you in my New Year’s prayers. I arrived home to mom’s after a group pilgrimage to sacred Buddhist sites in Nepal and Northern India. I am looking forward to my 2019 teaching schedule beginning with a four day, two weekend intensive workshop on the Tibetan Buddhist practices on how to help the living and dying. I want to take this Losar to send my deepest heartfelt feelings of appreciation to all of you who sincerely strive to develope your love and compassion. In these chaotic times your efforts help emit peaceful loving light, helping to lift some of the heavy weight of this world. I wish you, your family and friends much love, health and happiness. May you and all beings be happy. Blessings, Rinpoche.

Community discussions 2019

In 2019 we’ll have an open discussion on the philosophy and conversations that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has engaged in with leading scientists, academics, ethicists, and activists on the most urgent questions facing humanity today:

Student Talks 2020

Zachoeje Rinpoche designed the student talks not only to benefit the Sangha but more importantly to benefit the person who reads, studies and prepares the talk.
Rinpoche asks we pick a subject. He asks we preferably, pick a subject about which we know little or nothing.

Sunday January 28
Topic: How to find balance in our busy lives
Moderator: Lou Ann Behringer

Sunday February 16
Topic: How to find sustainable peace with self
Moderator:

Sunday March 22
Topic: The 8 auspicious symbols and what they represent
Moderator: Otto

Sunday April 19
Topic: How to deal with anger from a Buddhist point of view
Moderator: Parva

Sunday May 17
Topic: How to set up a practice altar at home
Moderator: Otto and Sian

Sunday June 14
Topic: What is the relationship between you and your spiritual teacher?
Moderator: Donna Tash

Sunday July 19
Topic:The qualities of a Budhisattva
Moderator: Ira Pettit

Sunday August 16
Topic: Ethics and a good society
Moderator:

Sunday September 20
Topic: What is universal responsibility?
Moderator:

Sunday October 18
Topic: Suffering, Impermance and death
Moderator:

Sunday November 22
Topic: Jataka Tales
Moderator: Lynne

Sunday December 20
Topic: The seven Limb Prayer
Moderator:

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