Tümed Mongol lands (Mongolia)

The lands of the Tümed Mongols, in what is now the Inner Mongolia / Mongolia region, were brought into the Gelug Buddhist fold in the late sixteenth century under Altan Khan. The Fourth Dalai Lama, Yönten Gyatso (born 1589), was a great-grandson of Altan Khan and the only Mongol ever recognised as a Dalai Lama.