Manhae Prize Explained

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)
2009		Iran	Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
2013
2014		Iran	Iranian film director	^[1]
2015		U.S.A	Professor of History at University of Connecticut
2019		Japan	professor at the University of Tokyo	^[2]
2020		Thailand	monk and founder of Santi Asoke	^[3]

Practice Prize winners

Year	Name	Country	Role/Reason	Ref
2012			Mayor of the Friedensstadt Augsburg
2013	Dagon Taryar		Writer and democracy advocate	^[4]
2014			Lawyer
2015			Buddhist monk
			Priest
2019	National Emergency Medical Center
2020			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 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,^[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)
• 2020 Joint winners: Kim Joo-young (writer) and Shin Dal-ja (poet)

External links

• • http://manhae2003.dongguk.edu/bbs/board.php?bo_table=manhae4_12&sca=20th
• Web site: 오류안내 페이지 동국대학교 만해마을 . 2024-07-01 . Dongguk University Manhae Village. dead .
• Web site: Dongguk University Manhae Village.

Notes and References

1. News: 2014-08-12 . Iranian film director wins Manhae Award . 2024-07-01 . . en.
2. Web site: August 16, 2019 . Four Awardees Selected for the 23rd Manhae Prize . 2024-06-15 . Dongguk University . en.
3. Web site: July 28, 2020 . Five Winners Selected for the 24th Manhae Prize . 2024-06-15 . Dongguk University . en.
4. Web site: Dagon Taryar awarded peace prize . 2013-08-25 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20151007100203/http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/7548-dagon-taryar-awarded-peace-prize.html . 2015-10-07 .
5. News: 2010-03-10 . Ralston Saul wins Korea's Manhae Prize . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230826033704/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ralston-saul-wins-korea-s-manhae-prize-1.877657 . 2023-08-26 . 2024-07-01 . CBC Arts.
6. Web site: 2014-08-21 . Ashraf Dali, 2014 Manhae Grand Prize Awardees Reports in Middle East . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150130052449/http://www.ajanews.asia/archives/2542 . 2015-01-30 . 2024-07-01 . Asia Journalist Association.
7. http://www.ajanews.asia/archives/2633 AJA article