Tao Hongjing and the Zhen'gao
Working from fragmentary handwritten sources, he personally distinguished which manuscripts he judged genuine from which he judged forged before publishing the collection in 499 CE — an early documented instance of textual criticism applied to claimed religious revelation.
Tao Hongjing (456–536), editor of the Zhen'gao (Declarations of the Perfected), 499 CE
A sixth-century Chinese scholar who gathered scattered manuscripts from an earlier mystical revelation and published them as a single critical edition.
