Manhae Prize

Dr. M.K. Otani receiving prestigious 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[]

See http://manhae2003.dongguk.edu/bbs/board.php?bo_table=manhae4_12&sca=20th]

Selected awardees with Wikipedia entries:

Peace prize winners[]

• 2015 , Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A
• 2014 Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director^[1]
• 2013 World Fellowship of Buddhists
• 2009 Shirin Ebadi Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
• 2008 Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the Triratna Buddhist Community

Practice prize winners[]

• 2015 Joint Winners : Reverend of Buddhism, Korea, priest, from Republic of Ireland
• 2014 , lawyer, Korea
• 2013 Dagon Taryar from Myanmar^[2]
• 2012 Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany

Literature prize winners[]

• 2015 Joint winners : professor, SoungKongHoe University, Korea, , Poet, Korea, , Master of Korean classical music, Korea
• 2014 Joint winners: Ashraf Dali, Egyptian poet and writer^[3] , calligrapher, Korea^[4]
• 2013 Konstantin Kedrov (poet), Ingo Schulze
• 2012 Kim Jay Hong
• 2011 Mo Yan
• 2010 Joint winners: John Ralston Saul President of International PEN,^[5] Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul.
• 2009 Joint winners: Robert Hass, Kim Jong-gil
• 2008 Lee Eo-ryeong
• 2007 Kim Nam-jo
• 2006 Joint Winners: Robert Pinsky, Hwang Dong-gyu
• 2005 Wole Soyinka
• 2004 Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author.
• 2003 Jo Jung-rae
• 2002 Shin Kyung-rim
• 2001 Lee Hung-ki
• 2000 Oh Sae-young
• 1999 Chung Wan-young
• 1998 Ko Un (poet)
• 1990 Hyun Ki-young (novelist)

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