Lam Ngagi Wangchuk laid the foundation of a monastery on a ridge in the lower Chokhor valley in Bumthang and started its constructions.A white bird flew away from this site and settled where the Jakar Dzong stands today. Lama took this as a good omen and he left the old site and moved to the new sites on a hill overlooking the Chamkhar valley. Here he completed a small dzong to be used as a monastery which he called Jakar Dzong (the dzong of the White Bird)
Today, Jakar Dzong has been the seat of the Jakar Dzongdag and it is the headquarters of the Bumthang District. Bumthang – “Sacred Heart of the Kingdom of Bhutan”. The Jakar Dzong (Castle of the White Bird) was built in 1677.