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Monastic Education The Dhammakaya Foundation has attempted to promote monastic education (in Pali and Dhamma Studies) amongst the wider monastic community by organising the Grade Nine Pali Graduate Congratulation Ceremony annually for those monks who complete their highest Pali education incorporating the award of scholarships for Pali students and Pali institutions, with scholarships annually totalling up to 2,000,000 Baht ($50,000). Wat Phra Dhammakaya established its own Pali College in 1995 and 1999 achieved the highest number of Pali examination passes of any monastic institution in Thailand. The college gives training in Pali Language and Dhamma Studies to about one thousand monks and novices and lay-people annually. Once a year, the Dhammakaya Foundation give scholarships to monks, novices, teachers and institutes who have shown an outstanding contribution to monastic education -- an amount which annually totals more than three million Baht ($75,000). For monks in the monastic community of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, training is given in the teaching of Buddhist principles to the general public so that when the monks become fully trained they will be able to contribute to the task of teaching morality to the general public.