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 Manhae Prize website, full list of awardees

Selected awardees with Wikipedia entries:

Peace prize winners

2015 Alxis Dudden, Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A
2014 Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian Film Director,^[1]
2013 World Fellowship of Buddhists, and Fethullah Gülen
2009 Shirin Ebadi Iranian Human Rights Advocate, Winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
2008 Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the Triratna Buddhist Community

Practise prize winners

2015 Joint Winners : Cheoung-Jeoun Reverend of Buddism, Korea, Rainbow Community - Noel-El Cheoun Priest, From Republic of Ireland
2014 Se-Chung Lee, Lawer, 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 : Young-Bok shin professor, SoungKongHoe University, Korea, Hyon-Jong Lee , Poet, Korea, Byong-Kee Hwang, Master of Korean classical Music, Korea
2014 Joint winners: Ashraf Dali, Egyptian Poet and Writer,^[3] Yoon Yang-hee, 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 Namjo
2006 Hwang Dong-gyu
2005 Wole Soyinka,
2004 Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author.
2003 Cho Jeong-rae
2002 Shin Kyung-rim
2001 Lee Hung-ki
2000 Oh Se-young
1999 Chung Wan-young
1998 Ko Un poet
1990 Hyun Ki-young novelist

References

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