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 Year Name Country Role/Reason Ref 2008 Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody) Member of the Triratna Buddhist Community 2009 Shirin Ebadi Iran Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace 2013 World Fellowship of Buddhists 2014 Mohsen Makhmalbaf Iran Iranian film director 2015 Alexis Dudden U.S.A Professor of History at University of Connecticut 2019 Haruki Wada Japan professor at the University of Tokyo 2020 Phra Bodhirak Thailand monk and founder of Santi Asoke Practice Prize winners Year Name Country Role/Reason Ref 2012 Kurt Gribl Mayor of the Friedensstadt Augsburg 2013 Dagon Taryar Writer and democracy advocate 2014 Se-Chung Lee Lawyer 2015 Cheoung-Jeoun Buddhist monk Rainbow Community - Noel-El Cheoun Priest 2019 National Emergency Medical Center 2020 Um Hong-gil Mountaineer and philanthropist Sun Young-sung Director of the Keimyung University Deagu Dongsan Hospital 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 winners: 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 2016: Lee In-hwi, labor literature author 2019 Joint winners: Im Young-woong (theatre director) and Kim Uchang (Professor Emeritus of Korea University) 2020 Joint winners: Kim Joo-young (writer) and Shin Dal-ja (poet)
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