Ughhhh...

I am writing this as I take a break from reading an article for my Art History Survey class, which if I didn't take a break my head might have exploded. It's an article about the Phoenix Hall, a Buddhist complex in Japan. An excerpt:

There is evidence that, at the Phoenix Hall, the conflation of Amitabha with Mahavairocana was intentional. The sculpture of Amitabha certainly lends itself to interpretation as a symbolic emanation of the Mahavairocana in the Main Hall nearby. The mudra of the small statue attached to the peak of the mandorla of the Amitabha figure, Wisdom Fists, indicates that it is the Mahavairocana of the Diamond World, or Vajradhatu. As such it represents the adamantine wisdom of the Cosmic Buddha, of which the universe is formed. Ritual convention and iconograpy stipulate its juxtaposition with a Mahavairocana of the Womb World, or Gharbadhatu, the noumenous realm of knowledge, and indeed such is provided in the Amitabha, who is an emanation of that form of Mahavairocana. It is also likely that the solar imagery of the Phoenix Hall, from the sun on the doors behind the Amitabha to its orientation toward the track of the setting sun, encompasses the symbology of Mahavairocana as the Buddha solaris.

Huh?

Anyway, it's like 25 pages long and halfway through I already feel like my head has been scrambled. When finished I have to write an essay on whether I agree with the evidence presented in the article. I wonder how I can drag out "Um, yeah" into a 2-page essay.

If any of y'all happen to be masochists you can read the full article here.