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.

Losar 2020 Please join us in traditionally welcoming the Tibetan New Year, the year of the Iron Rat.

Jataka Tales

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.

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Images from the 2018 expedition: Photo Gallery

Read the full report: Tibetan Water Project Summer 2018

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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Tuesday February 18

7:00pm-8:00pm Guru Yoga Tsok The Tsok offering is a ceremony that involves making offerings of food and drink to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and our spiritual teachers.

Wednesday February 19

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 Love & Compassion Meditation The meditation on love and compassion help us open our hearts and minds to ourself and others.

Thursday February 20

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.
10:00am-10:45am Silent Meditation Sit in meditation, watch your mind, collect mantra, or reflect.

Friday February 21

Saturday February 22

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.
10:0am-11:00am Love & Compassion Meditation The meditation on love and compassion help us open our hearts and minds to ourself and others.

Sunday February 23

9:00am-9:30am Tibetan Yoga with Geshe Lobsang Chophel
9:30am-10:30am Love & Compassion Meditation The meditation on love and compassion help us open our hearts and minds to ourself and others.
10:30am-11:00am Student Talk Topic: How to find sustainable peace with self
Moderator: Sain
11:00am-12:00pm Rinpoche's Video Teaching
11:30am-12:00pm Mantra and Mudra Class Geshe Namgyal will be offering classes on both chanting (mantra) and hand gestures (mudra}.

Monday February 24

5:30am-7:00am Celebration Tibetan New Year Please join us in traditionally welcoming the Tibetan New Year, the year of the Iron Rat.

Geshe Lobsang and Geshe Namgyal will begin the new year celebration with early morning prayers.

After prayers, please join us for a light continental breakfast. His Holiness the Dalai Lama took the opportunity of Losar to express his wishes on how we can achieve happiness:

Since everybody wants to be happy, and no one wants to be miserable, the cause of happiness is giving benefit and joy. If you lead your life in benefiting others, and not harming them, that's a meaningful life, a life that has”Tashi” (good fortune). On that basis saying ”Tashi Delek” means ”May you be happy in the here and now, and, as we Buddhists say, you may finally achieve definitive goodness.”

Tashi Delek, Happy New Year.

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Teachings on YouTube

37 Factors of Enlightenment - May 1, 2016

Tonglen - August 31, 2005

Video Teachings on Emaho Facebook

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

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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.

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

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.

Student Talks 2020

Zachoeje Rinpoche designed the student talks to not only benefit the Sangha but, more importantly, to benefit the person who reads, studies and prepares the talk.
Rinpoche asks we pick a subject, preferably one 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 23
Topic: How to find sustainable peace with self
Moderator: Sain

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 Bodhisattva
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, impermanence and death
Moderator:

Sunday November 22
Topic: Jataka Tales
Moderator: Lynne

Sunday December 20
Topic: The Seven-Limb Prayer
Moderator:

Community discussions 2020

The Foundation of Buddhist Practice begins with the four seals shared by all Buddhist philosophies, and moves on to an explanation of the reliable cognition that allows us to evaluate the veracity of the Buddha’s teachings.

The book provides many other essential Buddhist teachings, including:
the relationship of a spiritual mentor and student, clarifying misunderstandings about this topic and showing how to properly rely on a spiritual mentor in a healthy, appropriate, and beneficial manner;
how to structure a meditation session;
dying and rebirth, unpacking the often difficult-to-understand topic of multiple lives and explaining how to prepare for death and aid someone who is dying;
a fruitful explanation of karma and its results;
and much more.

His Holiness’s illumination of key Buddhist ideas will support Western and contemporary Asian students in engaging with this rich tradition.

EMAHO TEENS 2020

Teen program 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Our monthly program includes setting up our alter, mindfulness practices and Qi Gong exercises as well as discussions on how we can apply Buddha’s teachings to our everyday lives.
2020 Program is a spiritual take on the popular Escape Room. Samsara Escape Room
Please join us as we find our way out of the Samsara Escape Room using Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-Fold Path. We will navigate our way through by finding clues, solving puzzles, and breaking codes.
Questions?
If you have any questions please email Jackie, our teen and youth program director: E-mail: jackie@emahofoundation.org

EMAHO YOUTH 2020

Youth program 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Our youth classes strive to teach the essential points of Buddhism through storytelling and art, in a simple and fun way that will help children apply the teachings to everyday life.
Children of all ages are welcome.
Each class includes setting up our alter, calming the mind with a short guided meditation and calming our bodies by focusing on breath.
2020 PROGRAM Escape from Samsara Island
In this monthly program we will take a journey to get off of Samsara Island using Buddha’s teachings on the Four
Noble Truths the Eight-Fold Path. We will find clues, solve puzzles and figure out codes using your very own treasures.
If you have any questions, please email Jackie, our teen and youth program director: E-mail: jackie@emahofoundation.org

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