Venerable Sunam Hlamo

Venerable Sunam has been co-director of the Diamond Mountain Retreat Center in Arizona since 2019. She began studying and practicing the courses of the Asian Classics Institute in 2006, and founded  denstiftverstehen.de, a group devoted to spreading the wisdom in German-speaking countries. For many years she has been translating the ACI Foundation Courses into German and has been teaching them in German and English-speaking countries since 2015. She is a certified yoga trainer. She is also trained in the Diamond Cutter system and serves as an assistant professor at the Sedona College of International Management.

She has participated in almost all of Geshe Michael's Lam Rim series on-site since they began in 2012, and often translates them live in real time into German.

Before her ordination in 2016, Venerable Sunam was Dr. Brigitte Mayr, a licensed veterinarian. She now works as a successful IT project/program manager and database specialist for multi-million dollar international projects.  With the Buddhist principles she learned over the decades, she "created" two employers, who hired her part-time so she would have free time to study and teach the dharma, and still allowed her to hold responsible positions that used her skills and engaged her interest. 

She applies Buddhist principles with enthusiasm and success in her projects and her life, and she has already inspired countless people through her passionate and joyful commitment. Venerable Sunam lives in Munich, Germany. She hopes to settle in Arizona in the near future.