Temple Of Love

This is a music video sung by Tania Smith of the band SpaceJunky. You may view an earlier upload of the video at www.youtube.com/spacejunkytv which slows down at one point for some unknown reason, but this download is a high resolution file with the story upfront that plays perfectly.
The Story Of The Temple Of Love

My name is Tania Smith and I am a musician and lead singer for the band SpaceJunky. Rafe Van Hoy and I wrote and produced the song Temple Of Love which I sang and also filmed and produced the music video.

I have a jewelry company called Crystal Gypsy Designs and specialize in Old Tibetan Amulets which I make into 1-of-a-kind jewelry pieces. These necklaces are then energized with reiki and are sold in an art gallery in Sedona, AZ. While I was in Tibet in 2004 researching these amulets and the Tibetan culture I had a mystical experience in the Potala Palace which lead to the production of this video.

In the Potala Palace we came to a room with hundreds of candles outside. I remarked to Rafe, this reminds me of the line in our song "Temple Of Love" that we had written..."inside these walls a thousand candles have burned in promise of your return". Our guide Ken then said "this is called the room of a thousand buddhas, and was also the room of the 6th Dalai Lama, who wrote songs that the Tibetans still sing to this day". Rafe said "no wonder I feel so at home here".
We told Ken our guide about the song and sang it to him and as the notes echoed through the room everything seemed magical. Then our translator came up and said the monks had been watching us and wanted to know what I was singing. I told her and she went back and translated to them as they couldn''t speak English and then told us that they wanted to give us the blessing of the 6th Dalai Lama''s hat!
They asked us to bow as 4 of them place this giant yellow hat on our heads and said some prayers. It was an amazing experience and this was when we realised that the song was about the Dalai Lama''s return to Tibet and the Tibetan peoples message of love to the world.
Only when we recorded the song and edited the video did we notice that some footage of the Gyuto monks in the entrance of their temple are actually semi transparent, meaning that you can see the outline of one monk through another one as they walk in front of each other. It''s quite amazing and you can see it as well in the opening shots of the video. It''s much clearer on the high resolution DVD than on the web version. Film and video experts have seen this and have no explanation.

We are donating a portion of the proceeds from the song to raise money for various Tibetan humanitarian causes, we hope you enjoy it.