The University of Nalanda c10.149

c10.149

Equally charming and instructive are his plans of attack. He never reveals his own views. But, like an impartial tribunal, he points out mistakes and inconsistencies of his opponent's tenets.³ And gradually, he goes on to prove that if the opponent would stick to his arguments it would lead him to an absurd and ridiculous position, and then concludes that his position is thoroughly untenable even from his own point of view. With this done, we see Śāntarakṣita in the garb of a propagandist. He recounts the advantages of his own system, and says that all those faults and inconsistencies which were shown in the opponent's system would never occur in his own.