Restored Buddha on 9th shrine reopens two months after vandalism

A little more than two months after someone destroyed a large Buddha head at a Sugar House shrine, the broken terra cotta statue has been repaired and the sacred space reopened Sunday in a rededication ceremony. Ben Dieterle, a Zen Buddhist, told The Tribune in January that his heart sank when he discovered that someone had thrown a rock into the shrine, destroying the Buddha statue, just six weeks after he and his friends had dedicated the site at 1917 S. 900 East in Salt Lake City. Known as th