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with virtue”. The biochemist who uses his skills to refine heroin or the farmer who grows opium in the place of food crops, are examples of those learned in the world but who do not see the importance of virtue. The abbot set out to create a training which would instil virtue in the hearts of students, at a time before they took up their worldly vocation, so that virtue would be the basis of these young peoples’ service to society. The ‘Heirs of the Dhamma’ [Dhammadāyāda] Training Scheme was organised for this purpose for the first time in 1972. The Dhammadāyāda Training had been announced around the universities as a ‘Summer Course in Meditation Training’. It was the first major project of the temple and from that time onwards became an annual fixture. The first course consisted of two groups, with a total attendance of sixty. Male students, they were all provided with a white suit of rough cotton, printed with the Dhammadāyāda logo. At that time, the temple still had no significant shade from trees, so the ‘ascetic practice umbrellas’ [klod], under which they slept, were completely exposed to the midday heat, where they had been pitched. The course was lead by the Vice-Abbot, Ven. Dattajevo himself, who stayed in a ‘klod’ alongside the trainees. The trainees underwent a rigorous two-week course of training under the Vice-Abbot’s direction, rising at 3.45 a.m., following Eight Precepts and spending a full twelve hours-a-day in sitting meditation. Many of the trainees were very successful in their meditation as a result of this training and many of those pioneering ‘heirs