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[1]
- 2015: Alxis 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[2]
- 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,[3] 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[4] Yoon Yang-hee, calligrapher, Korea[5]
- 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
- ↑ Korea Times article Archived 2015-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Dagon Taryar awarded peace prize". Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
- ↑ CBC article
- ↑ AJA article
- ↑ AJA article
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