The origins of the western dvi-pitaka-vada

But you don’t mention that Abhidhamma is classified at times as Tipitaka and at times as sutta.

Atthasalini (expositor) p. 32:

“Which is the Khuddaka Nikaya? The whole of the Vinaya-pitaka, Abhidhamma pitaka and the fifteen divisions excluding the four nikayas” p35 “thus as rehearsed at the [first]council the Abhidhamma is a Pitaka by Pitaka classification, khuddaka -nikaya by Nikaya clasification, veyyakarana by part-classification and constitues two or three thousand units of text by classification of textual units”

Thus Abhidhamma is also sutta.

Commentary to the Mahāparinibbānasuttaṁ (DN 16)
Catutthabhāṇavāraṁ

But in the list [of four things] beginning with sutta, sutta means
the three baskets [Suttanta, Vinaya, Abhidhamma] which the three
Councils.

It is unfortunate that some can’t understand how profound Abhidhamma is and how it aligns exactly with what is real: what is here right now.

If they could they would see how Abhidhamma- pitaka , Sutta- pitaka and vinaya- pitaka are in agreement in every way, as they must be since they were spoken by the Sammasambuddha.

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