Yonten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama
- Yonten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama
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era = 1589-1616
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name = His Holiness Yonten Gyatso,
the 4th Dalai Lama
birth = Tibet
school_tradition = Gelug
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Yonten Gyatso (1589 – 1616) was the 4th Dalai Lama. As the great-grandson of Altan Khan of the Tümed Mongols, Yonten Gyatso was a Mongolian, making him the only non-Tibetan to be recognized as Dalai Lama other than the 6th Dalai Lama, who was a Monpa—Monpas can be seen either as a Tibetan subgroup or a closely related people.
:"He was recognized by a delegation from his Drêpung monastery and the princes of Ü, which had gone to Kweisui (Köke Qoto, Inner Mongolia) to meet him 1601." [Stein, R. A. (1972). "Tibetan Civilization", p. 82. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0806-1 (cloth); ISBN 0-8047-0901-7 (paper).]
Yonten Gyatso was controversial because he was appointed by the Mongolians in an apparent attempt to exercise control over Tibet. The Gelugpa-monasteries had decided nevertheless to recognize him. In 1601 he and his many Mongolian advisers were installed in the Drepung Monastery, where he was a student of the Fourth Panchen Lama Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen.
Many Tibetans did not recognize him and tried to retake power, supported by the Kagyupa order. This resulted in a civil war and Yonten Gyatso was forced to leave Lhasa. He died under suspicious circumstances at the age of 35.
Footnotes
Further reading
* Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). "The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation", pp. 164-183. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
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