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.Awardees
Selected awardees with Wikipedia entries:- 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, 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 Augsburg, Germany
- 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, 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 Nam-jo
- 2006 Hwang Dong-gyu
- 2005 Wole Soyinka
- 2004 Hong Seok-jung, first DPRK author.
- 2003 Jo Jung-rae
- 2002 Shin Kyung-rim
- 2001 Lee Hung-ki
- 2000 Oh Sae-young
- 1999 Chung Wan-young
- 1998 Ko Un
- 1990 Hyun Ki-young
