Manhae Prize
South Korean award series
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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 | [1] |
| 2015 | Alexis Dudden | U.S.A | Professor of History at University of Connecticut | |
| 2019 | Haruki Wada | Japan | professor at the University of Tokyo | [2] |
| 2020 | Phra Bodhirak | Thailand | monk and founder of Santi Asoke | [3] |
Practice Prize winners
| Year | Name | Country | Role/Reason | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Kurt Gribl |  DE | Mayor of the Friedensstadt Augsburg | |
| 2013 | Dagon Taryar |  MM | Writer and democracy advocate | [4] |
| 2014 | Se-Chung Lee |  KO | Lawyer | |
| 2015 | Cheoung-Jeoun | KO | Buddhist monk | |
| Rainbow Community - Noel-El Cheoun |  IE | Priest | ||
| 2019 | National Emergency Medical Center | [2] | ||
| 2020 | Um Hong-gil | KO | Mountaineer and philanthropist | |
| Sun Young-sung | KO | 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,[5] 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[6] Yoon Yang-hee, calligrapher, Korea[7]
- 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)[2]
- 2020 Joint winners: Kim Joo-young (writer) and Shin Dal-ja (poet)[3]