本书探讨了全真教在金元明时代的历史变迁过程，涉及全真教的派系整合、大宗师的传承、全真谱系的形成、全真教戒律的形成、全真教修炼生活、全真教性命双修的内丹学、元代相容并包的道教管理政策，以及有关全真教研究的一百二十八年的学术史。(This book discusses the course of historical changes of the Quanzhen Sect in Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties, relating to the Quanzhen Sect's factions integration, great masters' inheritance, the formation of Quanzhen pedigree and commandment of the Quanzhen Sect, the practice of austerities of the Quanzhen Sect, the internal alchemy of the Quanzhen Sect's dual cultivation of mind and body, the compatible Taoism management policy of the Yuan dynasty and the 128-year academic history related to studies on the Quanzhen Sect.)