Manhae Prize

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 Manhae Prize website, full list of awardees

Selected awardees with Wikipedia entries:

Peace prize winners

  • 2009 Shirin Ebadi Iranian Human Rights Advocate, Winner of Nobel Prize for Peace

Literature prize winners

References

  1. ^ CBC article

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