Bryan DE NOTARIIS

EDUCATION, APPOINTMENTS

EDUCATION AND POSITIONS

1 April 2024 – 30 September 2025 - Post-doctoral fellowship Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023 - Post-doctoral fellowship Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

2021 - Ph.D. in Humanities (curriculum: Indology), Università degli studi di Torino, 15 January 2021.

2016 - Masters in Asian and African Languages and Cultures, Università di Bologna, 15 March 2016 (Final grade: 110/110 cum laude).

2013 - Bachelors in Oriental History and Civilisations, Università di Bologna, 22 November 2013 (Final grade: 110/110 cum laude).

ADDITIONAL COURSES

6-17 August 2018: Intensive Sanskrit, Mahidol University (Thailand), prof. Mattia Salvini.

16-24 August 2017: Advanced Pali Reading Course, Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (UK), prof. Richard F. Gombrich.

10-21 July 2017: Summer School, Indology Programme, Leiden University (The Netherlands), prof. W. Knobl, prof. G. Ciotti, prof. D. Cuneo.

17-29 August 2015: Summer School in Pāli Language, Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (UK), prof. Richard F. Gombrich.

13-24 July 2015: Summer School, Indology Programme, Leiden University (The Netherlands), prof. W. Knobl, prof. P. C. Bisschop, prof. D. Cuneo.

4-29 August 2014: Summer School in Spoken Sanskrit, Heidelberg University (Germany), prof. Sadananda Das.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

2022 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of Bhasha. Journal of South Asian Linguistics, Philology and Grammatical Traditions (https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/bhasha/info)

LANGUAGES

Italian: Mother tongue

English: Excellent (spoken/written)

Sanskrit: Good (spoken); Very good (written)

Pāli: Good (spoken); Very good (written)

French: Basic (spoken); Good (written)

Classic Chinese (Buddhist texts): Working knowledge

RESEARCH

PUBBLICATIONS

Doctoral thesis

De Notariis, Bryan (2021). A Study of the Buddhist Path of Liberation: Manomayakāya, Iddhividhā̆, and other Abhiññās from the Sīlakkhandhavagga to the Commentaries. Torino: Università degli studi di Torino.

Edited books

Antonetti, Claudia; De Notariis, Bryan; Enrico, Marco (a cura di) (2024), Wine Cultures: Gandhāra and Beyond, Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari.

Monograph

De Notariis, Bryan (2026). Extraordinary Capacities in the Buddhist Path of Liberation: A Diachronic Study Based on the Theravāda Sources. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press.

Articles

Antonetti, Claudia; De Notariis, Bryan; Enrico, Marco (2025). “Il vino nell’India antica: una frontiera culturale e un middle ground fra geografia, politica e religione”. Geographia Antiqua, 34, pp. 107-127.

De Notariis, Bryan (2025). “Accenni di marzialità nelle fonti buddhiste in lingua pāli: riflessioni sulla base di alcuni elementi storico-artistici dal Gandhāra”. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 61, pp. 237-274.

De Notariis, Bryan (2025). “Utopian ahiṃsā and the violence inherent in food in early Buddhism: Pāli texts vis-à-vis early Upaniṣads and Aśoka edicts”. Kervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 29(2), pp. 45-70.

De Notariis, Bryan; Enrico, Marco (2024). “Traduzioni e interpretazioni ai confini tra Grecia e India. Una rilettura di Strabone 15.1.20 alla luce delle fonti indiane e buddhiste”. Ricerche ellenistiche, 5, pp. 145-163.

De Notariis, Bryan (2023). “Where is Grape Wine? On Grapes and Wine in Pāli Buddhist Literature and Beyond”. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 46, pp. 81-119.

De Notariis, Bryan (2023). “Revisiting Levman’s view on the Milindapañha”. Journal Asiatique, 311(2), pp. 305-312.

De Notariis, Bryan (2022). “Tensioni tra aspirazioni universali e manifestazioni particolari nel buddhismo Theravāda”. Tropos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica, 14(2), 209-232.

De Notariis, Bryan (2022). “La mente, l’energia e la leggerezza: una comparazione tra buddhismo indiano e tàijíquán 太極拳”. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 58, pp. 397-428.

De Notariis, Bryan (2022). “The Buddhist text known in Pāli as Milindapañha and in Chinese as Nàxiān bǐqiū jīng 那先比丘經. Some Philological Remarks and the Problem of the Archetype”. Bhasha, 1(1), pp. 111-132.

De Notariis, Bryan (2019). “The Concept of Manomaya in Early Buddhism and Upaniṣads: A Study with Particular Reference to the Pāli Sīlakkhandhavagga”. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 42, pp. 47-81.

De Notariis, Bryan (2019). “The Vedic Background of the Buddhist Notions of Iddhi and Abhiññā. Three Case Studies with Particular Reference to the Pāli Literature”. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 55, pp. 227-264.

De Notariis, Bryan (2018). “Note a margine su natura demoniaca, sessualità e donna in Bhagavadgītā As It Is di A. C. Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda”. Kervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 22, pp. 217-234.

De Notariis, Bryan (2018). “Osservazioni sull’esposizione della creazione del corpo fatto di mente (manomaya-kāya) all’interno del Sāmaññaphala-sutta”. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Orientale, 54, pp. 177-204.

Chapters in volume

De Notariis, Bryan (2024). “The Gandhāric Roots of the Indian Symposion and Sympotic-like Elements in Buddhist Literature”. Antonetti, Claudia; De Notariis, Bryan; Enrico, Marco (a cura di), Wine Cultures: Gandhāra and Beyond, Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, pp. 23-54.

De Notariis, Bryan (2019). “Panoramica sull’età del mondo e dell’uomo nei testi del buddhismo Theravāda”. Berardi, Elisabetta; Manca, Massimo (eds.), Età del mondo, età dell’uomo: Nascita, vita, morte tra microcosmo e macrocosmo. Atti del seminario internazionale (Torino, 26-27 settembre 2019), Alessandria: Edizioni dell’orso, pp. 15-25.

Review

De Notariis, Bryan (2019). “Review of Buddhism and Pali, by Gombrich, Richard”. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 55, pp. 657-660.

Article Review

De Notariis, Bryan (2021). “Per un appropriato studio accademico delle arti marziali. Recensione e riflessioni su: Marcello Ghilardi (a cura di). 2020. Filosofia delle arti marziali: Percorsi tra forme e discipline del combattimento”. Kervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 25(1), pp. 311-323.

Other

Antonetti, Claudia; De Notariis, Bryan; Enrico, Marco (2024). “Introduction”. Antonetti, Claudia; De Notariis, Bryan; Enrico, Marco (a cura di) (2024), Wine Cultures: Gandhāra and Beyond, Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, pp. 3-8.

De Notariis, Bryan (2024). “Prefazione”. Gethin, Rupert, I fondamenti del buddhismo, Roma: Ubaldini, pp. 7-8.

Antonetti, Claudia; De Notariis, Bryan; Enrico, Marco (2023). “Wine in Gandhara Bibliography”. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10245260

De Notariis, Bryan (2021). “Rejoinder to Ven. Anālayo and a Short List of Corrigenda”. Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Orientale, 57, pp. 9-16.

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

2024-2025 Member of the PRIN project, For a Multivocal History of the Attitudes Towards Non-human Animals in South Asia. Ethics, Practices, Symbolism. Investigating New and Unsolved Issues (P.I. Cinzia Pieruccini, Università degli studi di Milano). CUP H53D23005620006.

2022-2023 Member of the MALIWI project, Making Libations of Wine from Golden Cups. Social, ritual, and ceremonial use of wine in the Gandharan area, from the Achaemenids to the Kushans (P.I. Claudia Antonetti, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). (https://pric.unive.it/projects/maliwi/home)

SCHOLARSHIPS

October 2016 - October 2019 Ph.D. Scholarship, Università degli Studi di Torino.

September 2015 “Thesis abroad grant”, a contribution to write part of MA thesis abroad, Università di Bologna.

RESEARCH TERMS ABROAD

January – July 2019 “Visiting Research Student”, University of Bristol (UK), supervisor: prof. Rupert Gethin.

January – July 2018 “Visiting Research Student”, University of Bristol (UK), supervisor: prof. Rupert Gethin.

15 September – 15 November 2015 “Visiting Student” at the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies and Oriental Institute (Bodleian Libraries) (UK).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

28-29 March 2025: “Utopian ahiṃsā and the violence inherent in food in early Buddhism”. Paper presented during the international conference entitled Animal Studies and Ecocriticism in India at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

20-21 Febraury 2025: “Alcolici, vino d’uva e uva nel buddhismo indiano: analisi di alcune evidenze antiche”. Paper presented during the conference entitled Di-Vini Sentieri. La cultura del vino tra Mediterraneo e Gandhara at the Università di Pisa, organized by Giovanni Mazzini.

21-23 November 2024: “The Dawn of Vegetarianism and Ahiṃsa in Ancient India: Pāli Buddhism vis-à-vis Early Upaniṣads and Aśoka Edicts”. Paper presented during the conference entitled For a Multivocal History of the Attitudes Towards Non-Human Animals in South Asia. Ethics, Practices. Symbolism. Investigating New and Unsolved Issues at the Università degli studi di Milano.

11-13 October 2024: “Cibo e alimentazione tra buddhismo e Upaniṣad: l’uomo, il cosmo e il percorso di liberazione”. Paper presented during the Convegno e Assemblea Soci dell’Associazione Italiana Studi Sanscriti at the Accademia Vivarium Novum (Frascati).

14-15 March 2024: “Il vino nell’India antica, una frontiera culturale fra geografia e politica”. Paper presented in collaboration with Claudia Antonetti and Marco Enrico at the XII seminario di Geographia Antiqua: Divisioni geografiche e confini politici nell’Asia ellenistica: Strabone XI – XVI, Università degli studi di Perugia.

28-29 September 2023: “Strabone e l’India: immagine (e simbologie) della regalità indiana”. Paper presented in collaboration with Claudia Antonetti and Marco Enrico at the International Conference Da Sardi all’Indo: gli Orienti di Strabone fra popoli e culture, Università di Genova.

5-6 May 2023: “At the Roots of the Indian Symposium: How Indians Mingled with Greeks in Ancient Gandhara”. Paper presented at the International Conference Wine Culture: Gandharan Crossroads, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

3-5 October 2019: “Moltiplicazione e unificazione corporea nel buddhismo Theravāda: dal canone ai commenti”. Paper presented at the Convegno e Assemblea Soci dell’Associazione Italiana Studi Sanscriti, Università degli studi di Torino.

26 September 2019: “Panoramica sull’età del mondo e dell’uomo nei testi del buddhismo Theravāda”. Paper presented at the Seminario Interdisciplinare. Età del Mondo, Età dell'Uomo, Università degli studi di Torino.

19-20 September 2019: “Remarks on the Pāli and Chinese versions of the Buddhist Milindapañha”. Paper presented at the conference Il re ellenistico e il saggio indiano. Il Milindapañha e il suo contesto / The Hellenistic king and the Indian wise man. Putting the Milindapañha in its context, Università di Bologna.

28-29 September 2018: “From the Canon to the Comment: A Development of the Concept of ‘iddhividhā̆’ within the Pāli Buddhist Literature”. Paper presented at the 10th International Indological Graduate Research Symposium, SOAS University of London (UK).

28 April 2018: “The Vedic Background of the Buddhist Psychic Powers (Iddhi) and Higher Knowledges (Abhiññā)”. Paper presented at the 23rd Joint Postgraduate Conference on Theology and Religion, University of Exeter (UK).

26-28 October 2017: “From the Canon to the Comment: A Development of the Concept of ‘manomaya-kāya’ within Pāli Buddhist Literature”. Paper presented at the Convegno e Assemblea Soci dell’Associazione Italiana Studi Sanscriti, Università la Sapienza.

22-23 September 2017: “The Concept of ‘manomaya’ in Pāli Buddhism and Upaniṣads”. Paper presented at the 9th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, Ghent University (Belgium).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

27-31 January 2025: organization with Giovanni Ciotti, Francesca Dell’Oro, Andrea Drocco, Marco Franceschini, Beatrice Grieco, Elisabetta Magni, and Saverio Marchignoli of a cycle of lectures entitled Tradurre l’India. Itinerari linguistici, letterari e religiosi nelle varietà del medio indiano, Università di Bologna.

4-7 October 2023: organization with Andrea Drocco, Erica Biagetti and Lucrezia Carnesale of Sala-37: 37th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. (https://www.unive.it/data/33113/1/78161)

5-6 May 2023: organization with Claudia Antonetti and Marco Enrico of the International Conference Wine Culture: Gandharan Crossroads, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. (https://pric.unive.it/projects/maliwi/activities)

LECTURES AND TEACHINGS

27-31 January 2025: Lecturer at the cycle of lectures entitled Tradurre l’India. Itinerari linguistici, letterari e religiosi nelle varietà del medio indiano. In particular, Monday 27 January 2025: “Un’introduzione letteraria e linguistica”. Lecture delivered with Andrea Drocco. Wednesday 29 January 2025: “Introduzione alla lingua pāli I”, “Aspetti morfo-sintattici della lingua pāli II”, “Workshop di lettura e traduzione, pāli”, for a total amout of 6.5 hours of lessons.

9 November 2023: “Traduzioni e interpretazioni ai confine tra Grecia e India”. Lecture delivered with Marco Enrico during the cycle of lectures entitled “Seminari di cultura greca”, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.

27 February 2023: “Buddhismo, bevande inebrianti, norme e tradizioni locali”. In the cycle of lectures “Thematic Seminars (South Asia)” organized by Luca Maria Olivieri at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

10 November 2022: “Gli editti di Aśoka: tra testo e contesto”. Lecture delivered with prof. Andrea Drocco during Claudia Antonetti’s course “History and Civilization of Ancient Greeks” at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

29 September 2022: “Reading Aśoka’s edicts in light of the Vimānavatthu’s commentary and Arthaśāstra: How History Mingled with Legends”. Lecture taught at the International Summer School A Multilingual Philology of Nature: Reading Eco-Cultural Landscapes across the Hindukush-Karakoram (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 26/09/2022 – 01/10/2022, organized by Luca Maria Olivieri and Stefano Pellò).

8-13 July 2019: Lecturer at the Buddhist Texts Summer School. The life of the Buddha in Indian Texts: Approaching Pāli and Reading Sanskrit, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (organiser: prof. Andrea Drocco).

13 December 2017: “Il tempo del canone e il tempo del commento: la comparazione critica tra testo e commento attraverso l’esempio dell’Alagaddūpama-sutta”. In the cycle of lectures “Arti, lingue e letterature in dialogo col Tempo”, Università degli studi di Torino.

16, 18, 23 and 25 May 2017: “Introduzione allo studio della lingua Pāli”, Università di Bologna, lectures delivered with prof. Saverio Marchignoli.

MEMBERSHIPS

Member of the Associazione Italiana Studi Sanscriti.

Member of the Pali Text Society.

Member of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.