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). As the son of the chieftain of the Chokur tribe, Tsultrim Choeje, and great-grandson of Altan Khan of the Tümed Mongols and his second wife PhaKhen Nula, 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—but Monpas can be seen either as a Tibetan subgroup or a closely related people.

Yonten Gyatso (1589-1617) fut le 4e Dalaï Lama.

Yonten Gyatso var den den fjärde inkarnationen av Dalai Lama i Gelug-skolan i den tibetanska buddhismen. Yonten Gyatso var mongol och med möjligt undantag från den sjätte Dalai Lama, som tillhörde det med tibetanerna närbesläktade folkslaget monpa, är han den ende Dalai Lama som inte va av tibetansk börd.

Yonten Gyatso was de vierde Dalai Lama, (1589 - 1616). Hij was de achterkleinzoon van Altan Khan en de enige niet-Tibetaanse Dalai Lama.