Were monastic training texts written down during the Buddha's life?
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I suspect that "text" there is an artefact of the translation-into-English -- it says "texts" and you think "written".
A simpler and more common translation is just, "found in the suttas and the vinaya".
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Instead, you should carefully memorize those words and phrases, then check if they’re included in the discourses and found in the texts on monastic training.
Anabhinanditvā appaṭikkositvā tāni padabyañjanāni sādhukaṁ uggahetvā sutte otāretabbāni, vinaye sandassetabbāni.
I'm not sure any of the Pali words say "written text".
I haven't found a clear translation of sandassetabbāni, here's a footnote from Buddhism: Buddhist origins and the early history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia edited by Paul Williams (in a chapter titled, "On the very idea of the Pali canon"):
... which at least implies it's understood to mean something like, "compared with", not, "written text".
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This is an inaccuracy in the translation of Ven. Sujato.
Let's compare it against the translation of Ven. Anandajoti on this page:
Sutte osāretabbāni Vinaye sandassetabbāni.
they should be laid alongside the Discourses, they should be compared with the Discipline.
Here the latter translates "Vinaya" as "Discipline". The former translates it as "texts on monastic training".
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