The latter are thronged by monkeys, who understand that they can't be mistreated there. In temples across India, he looks in the shape of a fighter with a face that stands erect like a person. Because of his service to Rama, Hanuman is regarded as a model for most human devotion (bhakti). Hanuman is also a popular figure among Buddhists in Central, Southeast, and East Asia, and during those regions many temples are built because of his worship and districts of towns bear his title. Outside India, however different stories are told of him. Although chaste in the Sanskrit tradition, for instance, he's wives and children in different traditions. He's been identified as the inspiration for its fighter hero of the terrific Chinese poem Xiyouji ("Journey to the West"). In India Hanuman is admired from the nationalist Hindu organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, also he's been depicted as a fierce superhero in a series of comic novels. Even the Han...