Alexandra Makkonen's Contact Details

Alexandra Makkonen's Company Details

Wisdom Publications

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States • 11 - 50 Employees
Publishing

Wisdom Publications is the leading publisher of books, podcasts, and online courses on contemporary and classic Buddhism, mindfulness, and meditation. We're also now the premiere membership platform for Buddhists, having launched the Wisdom Experience in 2019 and now providing hundreds of hours of video, and thousands of pages of books, for members to read online.Wisdom is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to cultivating writers and teachers the world over, advancing critical scholarship, preserving and sharing the literary culture of various contemplative traditions, and helping people find and engage with the teachers, teachings, and practices for a wise and compassionate life.Wisdom traces its beginnings to the influential Tibetan teachers Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche who in the 1970s established the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of Buddhist service organizations. Lama Yeshe's vision of "publications for wisdom culture" led to the founding of Wisdom Publications.Over 30 years, Wisdom has developed a peerless list of over three hundred and fifty finely edited and beautifully produced titles that are distributed worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Wisdom's success in fulfilling its mission is due to the combined efforts and generosity of countless authors, translators, editors, donors, and staff, all inspired by the profound richness of Buddhism and similar contemplative traditions.