Dr. M.K. Otani receiving Manhae Prize from Mr. Kim, Cultural and Sport Minister of South Korea

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

Practice prize winners

  • 2012: Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany
  • 2013: Dagon Taryar from Myanmar[2]
  • 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

Literature prize winners

References

  1. Korea Times article Archived 2015-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Dagon Taryar awarded peace prize". Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2013-08-25.
  3. CBC article
  4. AJA article
  5. AJA article

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