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.

ZaChoeje Rinpoche has requested of us to recite Drupthop Thangtong Gyalpo's Vajra speech-A Prayer for Pacifying the Fear of Disease. Listen to the Geshes chanting this auspiciuos prayer in Tibetan.

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Temporary Closure

With our communities best interest at heart, Emaho will continue to suspend programs at the center until we are confident it is safe to meet again.
Each Sunday, on Emahos Facebook gage, we will upload one of four weekly guided meditation by our kind teacher ZaChoeje Rinpoche.

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We are also pleased to offer recordings of ZaChoeje Rinpoche's workshops and public talks, recorded since 2000:

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We look forward to a fresh clean start and hope to see you soon. Until then, we send prayers for a swift resolution to this unexpected and horrendous disease that is circumnavigating the globe.

Dear Dharma friends,

Tashi Delek!

This greeting comes with my wishes and prayers that you, your family, and your friends are healthy and happy. I am sorry that my end of 2019 winter schedule was disrupted due to some important spiritual events. In December, I took part in a meeting of Rinpoches at Drepung Monastery in South India with His Holiness. It was great to reconnect with many of my old spiritual friends and Rinpoches with whom I studied in the monastery. During that time I attended teachings by His Holiness and received some rare Scriptural oral transmissions from other Masters as well.

To absorb all those spiritual experiences, I extended my stay in India for a few weeks to do some personal spiritual retreats. Suddenly, when I was planning to return to the US in February 2020, my travel plans unavoidably shifted on my arrival at the airport due to the novel corona virus outbreak in Asia. Taking advantage of those changes, I decided to stay away from travel and went to visit my mother at her Tibetan village in South India to celebrate the Tibetan New Year. I had an opportunity to go on a pilgrimage to a sacred mountain in South India with some of my monk students. At the moment I'm still at the Tibetan village in India and waiting for this pandemic situation to settle down around the world.

Another interesting thing in this situation is that, near to my Mom's place, I happened to meet a wonderful elder monk who is carrying some rare oral transmission lineages of ancient scriptural texts. I requested him to bestow on me the transmissions and he accepted my request. I'm excited and getting ready to receive them while I'm here in the village.

I am pleased to see our Emaho Center participating in humanitarian projects. The donations for the Phoenix homeless children are heartwarming. The Geshes' beautiful Losar rituals and chanting were performed to spiritually help set our minds in a positive direction for the coming new year. The Geshes led the worldwide annual marathon, and also the one-day recitation of Logyonma to help stop the physical, mental, spiritual, and karmic obstacles the virus has inflicted on the wellbeing of the earth and its sentient beings.

The situation with the coronavirus is rapidly evolving. As we look across the international, national, and local landscape, we now know the virus is active and becoming pandemic across the world. I want you all to know that your health and your loved ones' health is of utmost concern to me. Please do take good care of your health. I request you to follow all the prevention methods and stay current with public guidelines. During this time it is important to remain calm and extend compassion to those who are suffering, and pray for the healing of the world.

I encourage everyone to continue to offer their prayers for the pandemic to come to a swift end. In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there is a powerful protection mantra to prevent the epidemic and it is called Logyonma Mantra:

ཨོཾ་པི་ཤཱ་ཙི་པརྞ་ཤ་ཝ་རཱི་སརྦ་ཛྭ་ར་པྲ་ཤ་མ་ཎཱ་ཡ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།།

OM PI SHA TSI PARNA SHAWA RI SARVA ZARA PRA SHA MA NA YA SVAHA

I suggest you all recite this mantra with compassion a few times a day.

By the end of March, it is estimated we will have a better sense of the virus and its spread and impact. I am hopeful to be home soon.

I keep all of you in my prayers and wish you all good luck, good health, and good happiness in your life. And I wish that you have all you need always.

I am looking forward to sharing with you some teachings and especially the Logyonma empowerment at our May retreat at our center in Phoenix. The practice of Logyonma can help destroy diseases and give protection to our planet, ourselves, and others. The practice can help us transform unhappy negative states.

I am currently doing many prayers and mantras for all of you and really looking forward to coming home soon.

Blessings, love, and good wishes,
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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Images from the 2018 expedition: Photo Gallery

Read the full report: Tibetan Water Project Summer 2018

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.

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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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.

>> 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

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 by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron 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