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).

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
 * 2015: Alexis Dudden, Professor of History at University of Connecticut, U.S.A
 * 2019: Haruki Wada (professor at the University of Tokyo)
 * 2020: Phra Bodhirak (monk and founder of Santi Asoke)

Practice prize winners

 * 2012: Kurt Gribl lawyer and Mayor of the Friedensstadt (Peace city) Augsburg, Germany
 * 2013: Dagon Taryar from Myanmar
 * 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, 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 Yoon Yang-hee, calligrapher, Korea
 * 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)