  In this paper we study the spectrum of low-energy edge excitations of a
fractional quantum Hall (FQH) droplet. We show how to generate, by conformal
field theory (CFT) techniques, the many-electron wave functions for the edge
states. And we propose to classify the spectrum of the edge states by the same
chiral operator product algebra (OPA) that appears in the CFT description of
the ground state in the bulk. This bulk-edge correspondence is suggested
particularly for FQH systems that support quasiparticle obeying non-abelian
braid statistics, including the $\nu=5/2$ Haldane-Rezayi state. Numerical
diagonalization to count the low-lying edge states has been done for several
non-abelian FQH systems, showing good agreement in all cases with the chiral
OPA predictions. The specific heat of the edge excitations in those non-abelian
states is also calculated.
