Original sentence: Xie's first chosen successor in Yin Style Baguazhang died in the 1980s, thus creating the same type of relationship with his new successor, He Jinbao, as he had had with his own master
Edited sentence: Xie's first chosen successor in Yin Style Baguazhang passed away in the 1980s, thus creating the same type of relationship with his new successor, He Jinbao, as he had had with his own master