 Vasubandhu’s dialogue with the Personalists takes some rather technical twists and turns, which I will not attempt to cover here. See the section on scripture for a summary of Vasubandhu’s methods of scriptural interpretation, which he employs decisively to defend against the Personalist adducement of the Buddha’s silence on the nature of the person. I will here mention only one further argument against the Personalists, before treating Vasubandhu’s arguments with non-Buddhists.