The Abhidhamma Pitaka, a collection of philosophical analyses of the mind, is included within the Pli Canon.
 The Visuddhimagga, and the other commentaries that Buddhaghosa compiled, codified and condensed the Sinhala commentarial tradition that had been preserved and expanded in Sri Lanka since the 3rd century BCE
 Canonical texts include the whole of the Pali Canon or Tipitaka

