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.

2026 Mandala With great joy Emaho invites our dear friends especially those we haven’t seen in a while but still hold us in their hearts to please join us for our anniversary celebration on Saturday April 4 in person and on Zoom.

In the weeks leading up to the event, Geshe Namgyal is creating a Chenrezig sand mandala to commemorate this quarter century milestone and to symbolize our renewed determination to bring more peace and harmony into our world. This scared image reminds us that, like the grains of sand, together we have been part of something beautiful. That Emaho is more than a physical place. It is the expression of joy and wonder that comes with the recognition of the innate virtue in our hearts and minds which we return to again and again to uplift ourselves and others.

Following the ceremony, we will have a southwestern community dinner to celebrate the mission we have nurtured over these years and to rejoice in the friendships, teachings, and shared aspirations that continue to flourish at Emaho.

Please RSVP for the dinner by March 14 by emailing emahoevents@emahofoundation.org

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2026 Mantrathon Sunday 25 Emaho welcomed 2026 with our annual Mantrathon.Chenrezig, is the embodiment of the compassion of all Buddhas. His mantra is Om Mani Padme Hum.We accumulated a total of 120,344,068 of these mantra! The Mantrathon is a worldwide community event. We are grateful for the participation of Rinpoche’s friends, students, and monks from Arizona, Washington, Oregon, UK, Canada, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, India and Tibet. Together, we created great merit and dedicate it for a year of healing, happiness and spiritual growth thoughout the world and to a swift, peaceful and benefical resolutions to world problems.

Chenrezig Sadhana click here.

Guru Yoga Tsok with Geshe Namgyal. The Tsok offering puja is a traditional Tibetan Buddhist ceremony involving offerings of flowers, food, and drink to the Buddhas, the Bodhisattvas, and our spiritual Gurus in conjunction with prayers, chanting, and meditation. During the ceremony, we accumulate merit, purify negativity, and give and receive blessings.

We are gearing up for Emaho's anniversary event on April 4, 2026. As part of the celebration, we want to display photos of the remarkable 25-year journey that has brought us all together and the special moments that made us "us". You can help us make it extra special by scrolling though your photos and shring your memories!

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.
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