<P>If we are material beings living in a material world -- and all the scientificevidence suggests that we are -- then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, inthis physical world. We must cast our lot with the natural rather than the supernatural. ManyWesterners with spiritual (but not religious) inclinations are attracted to Buddhism -- almost as akind of moral-mental hygiene. But, as Owen Flanagan points out in <I>The Bodhisattva'sBrain</I>, Buddhism is hardly naturalistic. In <I>The Bodhisattva's Brain</I>,Flanagan argues that it is possible to discover in Buddhism a rich, empirically responsiblephilosophy that could point us to one path of human flourishing. </P><P>Some claim thatneuroscience is in the process of validating Buddhism empirically, but Flanagan's naturalizedBuddhism does not reduce itself to a brain scan showing happiness patterns. "Buddhismnaturalized," as Flanagan constructs it, offers instead a fully naturalistic and comprehensivephilosophy, compatible with the rest of knowledge -- a way of conceiving of the human predicament,of thinking about meaning for finite material beings living in a material world.</P>