Biblical: 1) truth; the correspondence of an idea with an exterior God-created reality; hence in a Bib. sense the ground or basis of truth is the God of truth: khyed kyi bka' bden pa'o/ your word is truth (Jn. 17:17), yab la thugs nyid dang bden pa'i sgo nas bsnyen bkur zhu ba/ worship the Father in spirit and in truth (Jn. 4:23), bden pa des khyed sgrol bar 'gyur/ the truth will set you free (Jn. 8:32), nga ni lam dang /,,bden pa nyid dang /,,srog de yin/ I am the way and the truth and the life (Jn. 14:6), bden pa'i thugs nyid/ the Spirit of truth (Jn. 14:17); 2) truth may also be an attribute of persons: dkon mchog bden pa yin/ God is truthful (Jn. 3:33) see also drang ba/ .
Buddhist: 1) in daily life, speaking the truth bden par smra ba/ is one of the ten virtues (KTM); 2) doctrines believed to have been taught by the Buddha are considered to be true: chos nyid bden pa bstan pas grol bar 'gyur/ [the Buddhas] deliver by teaching this true doctrine (TRC 77); however, the Bst. scriptures are thought to be true only as they apply to spiritual practice; they make no claim to historical or scientific truth (BAL 62); 3) in contrast to the Bib. view of truth above, Bsm. denies any reality and hence meaningful truth to the observable world: snang tshad 'khrul pa lags te bden par med/ whatever appears is delusion and has no true existence (HTE 188); 'khor ba 'di la rtag pa gcig kyang med/,,rtag pa med pa bden pa su la yod/ there is no certainty or permanence in this life; where there is no certainty, who knows the truth? (KPU 6). Such skepticism extends even to the teachings of the Bst. scriptures, leading to the doctrine of two truths bden pa gnyis/ i.e. conventional truth kun rdzob bden pa/ that can be grasped by the ordinary mind (such as the 'phags pa'i bden pa bzhi/ or four noble truths) and ultimate truth don dam bden pa/ which can only be realized by spiritual practice (TRI 141).