Death
Kỳ died on 23 July 2011, aged 80, at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he was receiving treatment for "respiratory complications." His ashes are interred at the Buddhist Columbarium of Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California.
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