Eugene O?Neill?s contact with and research into the Oriental religions stems from his admiration for the Western philosophers such as Nietzsche,Schopenhauer and Emerson as well as from his early disillusionment with Christianity.

• 尤金·奥尼尔对东方宗教思想的接触和研究不仅和他所崇拜的爱默生、叔本华、尼采、斯特林堡等西方思想家、哲学家和文学家有关 ,而且和他早期对天主教幻想的破灭有关。