Success of Moral Training Projects: Dhammadayada Program : หน้า 69/91

ASE HISTORY OF THE SUCCESS OF MORAL TRAINING PROJECTS The Dnammadayada (Dhamma Inheritors) Training Programme has been conducted for twenty-seven years since the beginning of the Dhammikaya Foundation, allowing both male and female Buddhists of student age to have "hands-on" experience of Buddhist practice for a period of six to eight weeks. In 1996 the syllabus was given a thorough scientific assay to verify the claim that the Dhammadayada Training insils virtue to go hand in hand with academic knowledge. Researchers used questionnaires to probe participants on the Dhammadayada training course regarding to their self-perception of virtues accrued during the course. The conclusion drawn from this study was that the Dhammadayada Training Programme is able to develop the virtues of trainees for the better for example, by becoming more responsible, more punctual or more discerning. The reasons for the effectiveness of the Dhammadayada training were found to be because the curriculum draws on traditional Buddhist cultural principles which rely on training in non-extravagance in the use of the requisites, teaching of the virtues that bring happiness in this world and the next, the marks of a good man and awareness of the structure of the moral society. The course has applied these principles through the daily routine and the use of the requisites. In addition, all of the programme leaders and trainers had themselves undergone training courses in the analysis and application of the cultural principles used during the course until attaining mastery. Trainees in the programme received training in the different virtues hand in hand with practice of meditation to gain the inspiration to really upgrade the quality of their own minds. PROJECTS in near PEACE