[citation needed] The first temple was built in 1543 by the Drukpa lama Ngagi Wangchuck, who was the great-grandfather of Ngawang Namgyal, Zhabdrung Rinpoche, the unifier of Bhutan.

[citation needed] Chökhor Raptentse Dzong at Trongsa which was built in 1644, used to be the seat of power of the Wangchuck dynasty before it became rulers of Bhutan in 1907.

As per the prophecy ལུང་བསྟན། of lha dang lama, In 1543 the tutor [yong-zinཡོངས་འཛིན] of kuenkhen Pema karpo ཀུན་མཁྱེན་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ། visited yoelingའོད་གླིང་། village to the north བྱང་ཕྱོགས། of current day Trongsa dzong, where yoeling temple ལྷ་ཁང་།ོ is located.

Later that day, when he went to the site, he saw the bagha བྷ་ག of dorji phamo and the soul lake བླ་མཚོ། of pelden Lhamo དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།[Mahakali] as well as the footprints of her riding horse འཆིབ་རྟ along the waist of the cliff.

The history behind who, why and when the name was given runs back to the time when Buddhist scholar Kuenkhen Longchen Rabjam visited Trongsa around 1357 and conferred kachoe བཀའ་ཆོས། spiritual teaching at the place called Sherabling.