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

• 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: Alexis Dudden, Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A
• 2019: Haruki Wada (professor at the University of Tokyo)^[2]
• 2020: Phra Bodhirak (monk and founder of Santi Asoke)^[3]

Practice prize winners

• 2012: Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany
• 2013: Dagon Taryar from Myanmar^[4]
• 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
• 2019: National Emergency Medical Center
• 2020 Joint winners: Um Hong-gil (mountaineer), 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