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 Han Yong-un ( ko, 한용운; August 29, 1879 – June 29, 1944) was a twentieth century Korean Buddhist reformer and poet. This name was his religious name, given by his meditation instructor in 1905, and Manhae (만해) was his pen name; his ...

(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 Alxis Dudden, Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A *2014

Mohsen Makhmalbaf Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( fa, محسن مخملباف, ''Mohsen Makhmalbaaf''; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 1 ...

, Iranian film director *2013

World Fellowship of Buddhists The World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) is an international Buddhist organization. Initiated by Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, it was founded in 1950 in Colombo, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), by representatives from 27 nations. Although Therava ...

*2009

Shirin Ebadi Shirin Ebadi ( fa, شيرين عبادى, Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian political activist, lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi wa ...

Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace *2008 Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the

Triratna Buddhist Community The Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO)) is an international fellowship of Buddhists and others who aspire to its path of mindfulness. It was founded by Sangharakshita (born Dennis Philip Edward ...

Practice prize winners

*2015 Joint Winners : Cheoung-Jeoun Reverend of Buddhism, Korea, Rainbow Community - Noel-El Cheoun priest, from Republic of Ireland *2014 Se-Chung Lee, lawyer, Korea *2013 Dagon Taryar from

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

*2012

Kurt Gribl Kurt Gribl (born 29 August 1964 Augsburg, Germany) is a former Mayor of Augsburg, Bavaria, an office he held from 1 May 2008 to 30 April 2020. He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Early career Gribl has been practicing law si ...

lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city)

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

, Germany

Literature prize winners

*2015 Joint winners : Young-Bok shin professor, SoungKongHoe University, Korea, Hyon-Jong Jeong, Poet, Korea, Byong-Kee Hwang, Master of Korean classical music, Korea *2014 Joint winners: Ashraf Dali, Egyptian poet and writer Yoon Yang-hee, calligrapher, Korea *2013 Konstantin Kedrov (poet),

Ingo Schulze Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts a ...

*2012 Kim Jay Hong *2011

Mo Yan Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine ''TIME'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirate ...

*2010 Joint winners:

John Ralston Saul John Ralston Saul (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-l ...

President of International PEN,CBC article
/ref> Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul. *2009 Joint winners:

Robert Hass Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection ''Time and Materials: Poems 1997 ...

, Kim Jong-gil *2008 Lee Eo-ryeong *2007

Kim Nam-jo Kim Namjo is a Korean poet. Life Kim Namjo was born on September 25, 1927, in Daegu, South Korea. She attended a girls' school in Kyushu, Japan, and graduated from Seoul National University's College of Education in 1951 with a degree in K ...

*2006 Joint Winners:

Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of ...

, Hwang Dong-gyu *2005

Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...

*2004

Hong Seok-jung Hong Sok-jung (), born in Seoul in 1941, is a North Korean writer. He is the grandson of novelist Hong Myong-hui. Sok-jung moved to North Korea with his family after the Second World War. He served in the Korean People's Navy, and obtained a de ...

, first DPRK author. *2003

Jo Jung-rae Jo Jeong-rae () is a novelist from South Korea, best known as the author of the best-selling novels ''Taebaek Mountain Range'', ''Arirang'', and ''Han River"Jo Jung-Rae" biographical PDF available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti ...

*2002 Shin Kyung-rim *2001 Lee Hung-ki *2000

Oh Sae-young O Seyeong (, born 2 May 1942) is a South Korean poet, critic, educator, and professor at Seoul National University. He has been awarded the Korean Poets’ Association Prize, the Nokwon Literary Award, the Cheong Chi-Yong Literature Prize, th ...

*1999 Chung Wan-young *1998

Ko Un Ko Un (born 1 August 1933) is a South Korean poet whose works have been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. He had been imprisoned many times due to his role in the campaign for Korean democracy and was later mentioned in K ...

(poet) *1990 Hyun Ki-young (novelist)

References

{{reflist Peace awards South Korean awards South Korean literary awards Annual events in South Korea