Buddha under the bridge

The homeless dig Kiley Jon Clark’s Buddhist “Street Dharma.” But is he for real?

By Enrique Lopetegui
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I don’t remember being scared, but maybe he sees panic on my face.

“Don’t worry, man,” Kiley Jon Clark, a.k.a. Sonom Gyatso, tells me as we approach the West Commerce bridge. “When you come here, [the homeless] treat you with both respect and distrust. They don’t know if you’re a cop, or immigration,...