Friend @reddust very true, the best way to know the path of the enlightened is to investigate and interpret each of the sects that took place from the origin of religion. I have read that the followers of southern Buddhism say that they have the sacred texts that are older and closer to what the Buddha preached. Is that true? because I read in your previous publications how each school has a different position.
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@deisydavi, all the schools, have text from Ananda, "What The Buddha Said," but many disagree on the order of the text written down, and the Chinese Agamas were copied from Buddhist Sanskrit text. Some suttas are missing, but all in all the words of Buddha were faithfully kept in all the surviving schools we have today. What differs from school to school is the Vinaya, codes of the monastics and the Abhidhamma which is post-canonical, written after Buddha's Paranirvana.