The philosophical problem of free will has been understood throughout the history of Western philosophy in connection with beliefs in fate, God, determinism, and logic. Historically, there has been no free will issue in Buddhism until fairly recently. The central problem for any Buddhist who is optimist about free will is how to possibly reconcile free will with the Buddhist view of the self, which view is at least deflationary and at most completely eliminativist, depending on which form of Buddhism one has in mind. This book deals primarily with Buddhism and free will. It brings Buddhist philosophy more explicitly into the Western analytic philosophical discussion of free will, in order both to render more perspicuous Buddhist ideas that might shed light on the Western philosophical debate, on the one hand, and to render more perspicuous the many possible positions on the free will debate that are available to Buddhist philosophy, on the other hand. The author critically reviews the extant literature on the subject from an analytic philosophical perspective and in light of broader Buddhist doctrine as well as by reference to primary sources in canonical and authoritative Buddhist texts. Mapping out the major logical possibilities open to different types of Buddhist philosophers, the book identifies the problems and challenges raised by each and argues ultimately that a core subset of these is more plausible than the others. An elaborate argument against the extant competing Buddhist theories of free will and in favor of the author's Buddhist-meditation informed theory of free will, this book will be a novel contribution. It will be of interest to Buddhist and Western philosophers and academics interested in comparative philosophy, free will, philosophy of action, metaphysics, ethics and Religious Studies.