Venerable Parakarma

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also known as Dr. Choam Goldberg, Swami Krisnamurthi

Opponent / Apostate scientist-monk

Younger monk and former cosmologist who experienced a religious conversion; resolves to protect the temple while re-engaging science, descending the mountain like Moses.

In The Fountains of Paradise (Arthur C. Clarke, 1979)