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Manhae Prize

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).

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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, Iranian film director
  • 2013 World Fellowship of Buddhists
  • 2009 Shirin Ebadi Iranian human rights advocate, winner of Nobel Prize for Peace
  • 2008 Lokamitra (Jeremy Goody), member of the Triratna Buddhist Community

    • Practise 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
  • 2012 Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, 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
  • 2012 Kim Jay Hong
  • 2011 Mo Yan
  • 2010 Joint winners: John Ralston Saul President of International PEN, Jeong Jin-gyu editor of Modern Poetry, Seoul.
  • 2009 Joint winners: Robert Hass, Kim Jong-gil
  • 2008 Lee Eo-ryeong
  • 2007 Kim Namjo
  • 2006 Hwang Dong-gyu
  • 2005 Wole Soyinka
  • 2004 Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author.
  • 2003 Cho Jeong-rae
  • 2002 Shin Kyung-rim
  • 2001 Lee Hung-ki
  • 2000 Oh Se-young
  • 1999 Chung Wan-young
  • 1998 Ko Un poet
  • 1990 Hyun Ki-young novelist

    • References

    Manhae Prize Wikipedia
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