Manhae Prize

Dr. M.K. Otani receiving Manhae Prize from Mr. Kim, Cultural and Sport Minister of South Korea

The Manhae Prize is a series of awards in the following categories: Peace, Social Service, Academic Excellence, Art, Literature, and Buddhist Missionary Work awarded by The Society for the Promotion and Practice of Manhae's Thoughts in memory of Buddhist reformer and anti-Japanese independence activist Han Yong-un (1879–1944).

Awardees

Peace prize winners

• 2008: Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the Triratna Buddhist Community
• 2009: Shirin Ebadi Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
• 2013: World Fellowship of Buddhists
• 2014: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director
• 2015: Alexis Dudden, Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A

Practice prize winners

• 2012: Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany
• 2013: Dagon Taryar from Myanmar
• 2014: Se-Chung Lee, lawyer, Korea
• 2015: Joint winners: Cheoung-Jeoun Reverend of Buddhism, Korea, Rainbow Community - Noel-El Cheoun priest, from Republic of Ireland

Literature prize winners

• 1990: Hyun Ki-young (novelist)
• 1998: Ko Un (poet)
• 1999: Chung Wan-young
• 2000: Oh Sae-young
• 2001: Lee Hung-ki
• 2002: Shin Kyung-rim
• 2003: Jo Jung-rae
• 2004: Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author
• 2005: Wole Soyinka
• 2006 Joint einners: Robert Pinsky, Hwang Dong-gyu
• 2007: Kim Nam-jo
• 2008: Lee Eo-ryeong
• 2009 Joint winners: Robert Hass, Kim Jong-gil
• 2010 Joint winners: John Ralston Saul President of International PEN, Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul.
• 2011: Mo Yan
• 2012: Kim Jay Hong
• 2013: Konstantin Kedrov (poet), Ingo Schulze
• 2014 Joint winners: Ashraf Dali, Egyptian poet and writer Yoon Yang-hee, calligrapher, Korea
• 2015 Joint winners: Young-Bok shin professor, SoungKongHoe University, Korea, Hyon-Jong Jeong, Poet, Korea, Byong-Kee Hwang, Master of Korean classical music, Korea

References

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