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Asoka Weerasinghe fears there’s an anti-Buddhist movement in the city after a statue of Buddha at an Ottawa monastery was vandalized again just days after being restored and unveiled at a ceremony.

“It hurts us. We are a very quiet community. I would have trouble smacking a mosquito for God’s sake,” said Weerasinghe, the 82-year-old outreach co-ordinator of the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Monastery.

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It’s the second time someone has attacked the Buddha statue, and this time the vandal was caught on security video around 12:45 Thursday morning. In the video, a man carrying a piece of lumber in his left hand is seen crossing the road to the temple on Heron Road. He then starts whacking the Buddha statue with the piece of lumber.

In March, someone attacked the statue and decapitated it. The repaired statue was unveiled earlier this month. On Thursday, there was no decapitation, but the man did manage to slice the chin off.