Professor Manduhai Buyangelger was presented the 2022 Onon prize at the October 2nd, 2023 Onon Lecture at Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit of University of Cambridge, UK.

This award recognizes Professor Buyandelger's contributions to Inner Asian Studies.

To mark his continuing inspiration to the work of the Mongolia and Inner Studies Unit, the Executive Committee of the MIASU has created a prize in the memory of Urunge Onon, who co-founded the Unit with Professor Caroline Humphrey in 1986. At the 'MIASU @ 30' anniversary celebration event in October 2016, the first 'Onon Prize' was presented by Dr Temujin Onon to Professor Roberte Hamayon (Paris) for her contribution to Mongolian Studies,  The occasion was also used to pay tribute to Urgunge who died at the age of 96 in December 2015.