I don't think that the process I described happened peacefully, or that nobody was wronged or injured in the process - I just observed that the result is a grea

I don't think that the process I described happened peacefully, or that nobody was wronged or injured in the process - I just observed that the result is a greater state of preservation of what preceded. But even in the case of Buddhism, one outcome of the repression of Buddhism was the coopting of large parts of it, at least the parts that didn't threaten the Hindu social structure. Whether or not it is widely known today, Buddhism had a major reformatory impact on what we call Hinduism today.