 Vasubandhu was a master of Buddhist scripture. A great number of scriptural commentaries are attributed to him, and we find Vasubandhu citing scripture literally hundreds of times throughout his philosophical works. (Pāsādika 1989) Furthermore, Vasubandhu is one of very few Indian or Tibetan authors to have written a treatise dedicated to the interpretation and exposition of Buddhist scripture, called the Proper Mode of Exposition  (Vyākhyāyukti).[31]  Here is not the place for a thorough survey of this material, which awaits future research. It is, however, worth sketching a characteristic pattern in Vasubandhu’s citation of scripture, and noting its relation to his view of scripture in the Proper Mode of Exposition.