Karma had founded and financed a leading Tibetan environmental organization in 2001, and was named China’s philanthropist of the year in 2006 by China Central Television (for “creating harmony between men and nature”). And, last year, the One Foundation, a humanitarian fund run by the film star Jet Li, awarded him one million renminbi by for his “model project.”
这三起案件都疑点重重，因为这三兄弟都从未被指控有批评国家，反对共产党甚至谈论政治的行为。相反，他们被人们视为西藏人的楷模。嘎玛于2001年创立并资助了西藏最大的一个环保组织，并被中央电视台选为2006年度中国慈善家（当选原因是“创造了人与自然之间的和谐”）。而就在去年，由华人电影明星李连杰创立的人道组织“壹基金”还向嘎玛颁发了“2009壹基金典范工程”奖，奖金100万元人民币。