The Cult and the Practice of the Bonpo Deity Walchen Gekhod also known as Zhang Zhung Meri

THE CULT AND PRACTICE OF THE BONPO DEITY WALCHEN GEKHOD, also known as ZHANG-ZHUNG  MERI, the Meditation Deity for the Zhang-zhung Nyan-gyud Tradition of  Dzogchen from the Ancient  Kingdom of Zhang-zhung in Western Tibet, containing translations of the Sadhana Practice texts for the Deity Zhang-zhung Meri from the  Me-ri sGrub-skor, together with the Origin Myth of  Walchen Gekhod and translations of commentaries on this practice by John Myrdhin Reynolds.

Before the coming of Buddhism from India to Tibet in the 7^thand 8^thcenturies and simultaneously arising the empire in Central Tibet, there flourished in northern and western Tibet the ancient kingdom of Zhang-zhung. This kingdom, which centered around the sacred mountain of Kailas, was closely connected with other ancient Central Asian cultures, and its own religious culture was known as Bon.