Complex sentence: Early Western translators of the Pāli canon found the Abhidhamma Pitaka the least interesting of the three sections of the Tipiṭaka, and as a result this Abhidhammic aspect of Buddhism was little studied in the West until the latter half of the 20th Century.
Split into simpler sentences: Early Western translators of the Pāli canon found the Abhidhamma Pitaka the least interesting of the three sections of the Tipiṭaka. As a result this Abhidhammic aspect of Buddhism was little studied in the West until the latter half of the 20th Century.