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Everything Yearned For : Manhae’s poems of Love and Longing
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Manhae (1879-1944), or Han Yongun, was a Korean Buddhist (Son) monk during the era of Japanese colonial occupation (1910-1945). Manhae is a political and cultural hero in Korea, and his works are studied by college students and school children alike.
Everything Yearned For is a collection of 88 love poems, evocative of the mystical love poetry of Rumi, and even reminiscent of the work of Pablo Neruda.Though Manahe's poetry can be read allegorically on many levels—political and religious—it is completely unlike any other poetry in Buddhist or secular realm.
The first poem, "My Lover's Silence," narrates the lover's departure and establishes the enduring themes of the work: The happiness of meeting, the sadness of separation, the agony of longing and waiting, and, most of all, the perfection of love in absence that demands the cost of one's ongoing life, as opposed to the relief of death. The Korean word translated in these poems as "love" and "lover" is nim, though nim has many and broad interpretations. Understandably, the identity of Manhae's lover, or "nim" has been the subject of much speculation.
Manhae writes in his own preface:
"Nim" is not only a human lover
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His childhood name was Yucheon(裕天). His Religionist name was Manhae(萬海, 卍海).
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Manhae Prize
South Korean award series
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
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Peace Prize winners
[edit]Practice Prize winners
[edit]Literature Prize winners
[edit]- 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,[5] 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[6]Yoon Yang-hee, calligrapher, Korea[7]