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Yonten Gyatso or Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589–1617), was the 4th Dalai Lama, born in Tümed on the 30th day of the 12th month of the Earth-Ox year of the Tibetan calendar. Other sources, however, say he was born in the 1st month of the Earth Ox Year.
The Fourth Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso (1589–1617) was a Mongol, the great-grandson of Altan Khan who was a descendant of Kublai Khan and leader of the Tümed Mongols who had already been converted to Buddhism by the Third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso (1543–1588).
There have been 14 recognised incarnations of the Dalai Lama. There has also been one non-recognised Dalai Lama, Ngawang Yeshe Gyatso (declared in 1707), by Lha-bzang Khan as the "true" 6th Dalai Lama – however, he was never accepted as such by the majority of the Tibetan people .
Yonten Gyatso or Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589–1617), was the 4th Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was born in 1589 in Mongolia to the Chokar tribal chieftain Tsultrim Choeje, who was the grandson of Altan Khan, and his second wife PhaKhen Nula.
Jul 10, 2024 · The fourth Dalai Lama, Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589–1617), was a great-grandson of Altan Khan and the only non-Tibetan Dalai Lama. The next Dalai Lama, Ngag-dbang-rgya-mtsho (1617–82), is commonly called the Great Fifth.
The Fourth Dalai Lama, Yonten Gyatso, was born in 1589 in Mongolia to the Chokar tribal chieftain Tsultrim Choeje, who was the grandson of Altan Khan, and his second wife PhaKhen Nula.
Yonten Gyatso or Yon-tan-rgya-mtsho (1589–1617) was the 4th Dalai Lama, born in Mongolia on the 30th day of the 12th month of the Earth-Ox year of the Tibetan calendar. (Other sources, however, say he was born in the 1st month of the Earth Ox Year).
Yonten Gyatso, the Fourth Dalai Lama, was born in Mongolia, the grandson of the successor to Altan Khan, who had invited the Third Dalai Lama to Mongolia. Although he died young, his Mongolian heritage cemented the Geluk-Mongol alliance, allowing the heirarchs in Drepung to exerted considerable power in Tibet.
Dec 13, 2013 · Dalai Lama IV, Yonten Gyatso. 20th Century. Wood-block print on paper. Collection of Private. Following the unexpected death of the 3rd Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso, in Mongolia in 1588, his patrons, the leaders of the Tumed Mongols, decided to identify his reincarnation among their own people.
Yonten Gyatso was the 4th Dalai Lama, (1589 – 1616). As a descendant of the people of Mongolia, he was the only non-Tibetan to be recognized as Dalai Lama (although the 6th Dalai Lama was a Monpa), and that after extended debate among his contemporaries.
