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The text in the image is: "National Dhamma Quiz Contest The Dhamamkaya Foundation in co-operation with the International Buddhist Club have arranged a yearly peace and ethics education curriculum which incorporates a quiz contest for schoolchildren, university students and military/police cadets. The curriculum content is based on the Thirty-eight Blessings of Life (the Buddhist Mangala Sutta) and enters its eighteenth year in 1999. The course was readily accepted and was willingly adopted as an extra-curricular activity by many students and instructors around Thailand. Studies culminate in an examination of morality knowledge. In 1998, over 1,650,000 contestants from more than 5,000 academic institution nation-wide competed in the contest at eighteen age and vocational levels. More than 600,000 certificates for those who pass the exam and more than 3,500 educational scholarships were awarded. A special incentive for participants in the programme is the royal patronage for the first-prize winners in each of the 18 categories - plaques of distinction are provided by their majesties the King and Queen of Thailand and other members of the Thai Royal Family. Every year students from all main religions voluntarily participate in the training and quiz contest. The unity of children of different religious backgrounds studying the same morality course is one small step forward for the global ideal of world peace and inter-cultural harmony. Studies carried out each year prove conclusively that participants in the programme developed higher moral and ethical character than those non-participants. Research has shown dramatic positive behavioural change in the lives of these young people."