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Dhammadayada Training and Mass Ordination The Dhammadayada Training Programme was the prototype training course to round off undergraduate students' (age 20-35) academic knowledge with spiritual and ethical practice. Such a taste of ordained life for students instils a respect for morality which stays with them even when returning to their regular lives in society. The Dhammadayada Training Project created the opportunity to teach ethics and meditation by relating it to real life situations and contexts through a total environment of ethics to which trainees must adapt their own character. The hands-on experience of students in Thailand and abroad has become particularly widespread as the result of the Dhammadayada Training and Mass Ordination Programme. As such, the Dhammadayada training can be said to be the foundation of an ethics and humanitarian society. In 1999 the course enters its twenty-seventh year and in the present day. Dhammadayada Training courses are available for other groups including • Young Dhammadayada -for schoolchildren of the 9-15 age-group. • Youth Dhammadayada - for students of 16-19 age-group. • Special related courses are available to trainees from the army, navy, civil service and private sector.