Tibetan New Year 28 Feb 2025

Welcome to the year 2152. That is, in the Tibetan calendar at least. Today marks the start of Losar, the new year festival celebrated in Tibetan Buddhism, which is observed in Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and parts of India. Losar celebrations run for 15 days, beginning the night before with a meal of guthuk—a traditional dumpling soup. The new year is rung in with an incense burning ceremony and visits to holy places to pray for good fortune in the year ahead.

© Baron Reznik/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Postcard from Italy
28 Feb 2024Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England
28 Feb 2026Oloupena Falls, island of Molokai, Hawaii, United States

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Bungle beehives
Launching hopes and prayers
We’ve identified these ‘flying objects’
6 Aug 2025Ring-tailed lemur
Where did you drop the fish, son?
17 Jul 2025Lavender fields in Plateau de Valensole, France
21 Apr 2026European hedgehog, France
31 Oct 2025Happy Halloween!
15 Jun 2024Trooping the Colour
17 Dec 2025Eurasian red squirrel in Northumberland, England
High achievers
6 Dec 2025Everglades National Park, Florida, United States
13 Jan 2026Hen Galan
We can all just get along
29 Jul 2024Tiger siblings in Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India
17 Mar 2025Happy St Patricks Day!
It’s party time
25 Mar 2024Happy Holi!
28 Jul 2024Colourful bathing huts on the beach in Skåne County, Sweden
Time to make an impression
1 Apr 2026Peggys Point Lighthouse, Atlantic Coast, Nova Scotia, Canada
A mile-high island
22 Mar 2024World Water Day
18 Aug 2025Avalanche Lake Trail at Adirondack High Peaks, New York, United States
10 Mar 2025Lion, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
30 Nov 2025St Andrews Day
24 Apr 2024The white trilliums in Ontario, Canada
26 Feb 2024Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, Canada
30 Jul 2024Friendship Day
16 Feb 2026Jorvik Viking Festival